Download or read book The Expedition to the Baobab Tree written by Wilma Stockenström and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Expedition to the Baobab Tree written by Wilma Stockenstrom and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.
Download or read book The Expedition to the Baobab Tree written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Expedition to the Baobab Tree written by Wilma Stockenstrom and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly remarkable contribution, both for the lyrical quality of its prose and for its boldly imaginative theme. World Literature Today
Download or read book In this Kingdom of Passing Fiction Memory and Imagination in David Malouf s An Imaginary Life and Wilma Stockenstr m s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree written by Allison (Allison Lynn) Fillmore and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Women s Writing in English written by Lorna Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
Download or read book The Voyage of the Challenger written by Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Baobabs Pachycauls of Africa Madagascar and Australia written by G.E. Wickens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-02 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia. It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers the extraordinary variety of economic uses of baobabs. There are also appendices on vernacular names, gazetteer, economics, nutrition and forest mensuration. This book fills a gap in the botanical literature. It deals with a genus that has fascinated and intrigued scientists and lay persons for centuries.
Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries written by David Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi 1858 1864 By David and Charles Livingstone With map and illustrations written by David Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858 1864 written by David Livingstone and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Expedition to the Zambesi written by David Livingstone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular account of an expedition to the Zambesi and the previously unexplored country, with it's river systems, natural productions, and capabilities; and to highlight the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases; a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgment.
Download or read book The Oldest Living Things in the World written by Rachel Sussman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.
Download or read book A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries written by David Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Life written by Karel Schoeman and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully written novel, by one of South Africa's most celebrated writers, has an almost hypnotic power that draws the reader into one woman's life. As a post-apartheid novel, This Life considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one family. In an elegiac narrator's tone, there is also a sense of compulsion in the narrator's attempts to understand the past and achieve reconciliation in the present. This Life is a powerful story partly of suffering and partly of reflection.
Download or read book The Western in the Global Literary Imagination written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection of essays shows how the American Western has been reimagined in different national contexts, producing fictions that interrogate, reframe, and remix the genre in unexpectedly critical ways.
Download or read book Mistress and Mother and Goddess enough to Make You Laugh Transformation Through Contrast in Wilma Stockenstr m s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree written by John Timothy Hering and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the riotous fall of South African Apartheid, Wilma Stockenström's stream-of-consciousness novella Die kremetartekspedisie, translated into English by J.M. Coetzee as The Expedition to the Baobab Tree, is recognized as the first full-length Afrikaans text written from the perspective of a black African woman. It has been hailed as demonstrating new liberality of the Afrikaner consciousness but also assailed as usurpation of the Shona cultural voice. Analysis of textual symbolism with regard to Herbert Aschwanden's Shona Heritage books and of the text's verisimilar qualities with reference to Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language together reveal textual parallels between the post-Apartheid Shona woman and the newly feminist Afrikaner woman, suggesting that traditional feminine paradigms of both cultures limit women's possibilities and that a new hybrid, powerful vision of woman is needed.
