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Book The Wizard of the Nile

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  • Author : Matthew Green
  • Publisher : Granta Publications
  • Release : 2012-03-22
  • ISBN : 1846274818
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book The Wizard of the Nile written by Matthew Green and published by Granta Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foreign correspondent’s chronicle of the Ugandan warlord and his Lord’s Resistance Army of abducted child soldiers: “a readable and compelling account” (Independent, UK). Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel leader: he is said to take his orders directly from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalized child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Joseph Kony is now an internationally wanted criminal, and yet nobody really knows who he is or what he is fighting for. To get the truth behind the rumors and myths, Matthew Green ventures into the war zone, meeting the victims, the peacemakers and the regional powerbrokers as he tracks down the man himself. The Wizard of the Nile is the first book to peel back the layers of mysticism and murky politics surrounding Kony, to shine a searching light onto this forgotten conflict, and to tell the gripping human story behind an inhumane war and a humanitarian crisis. Winner of the Jerwood Award Long-listed for the Orwell Prize

Book The Wizard of the Nile

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  • Author : Harry Bache Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book The Wizard of the Nile written by Harry Bache Smith and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wizard Of The Nile

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  • Author : Victor Herbert
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781020429842
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Wizard Of The Nile written by Victor Herbert and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge in the whimsical and hilarious tale of 'The Wizard of the Nile'. A delightful comic opera that follows the wacky and unpredictable adventures of a traveling magician and his companions. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Wizard of the Nile

Download or read book The Wizard of the Nile written by Victor Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wizard of the Nile

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  • Author : Victor Herbert
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2015-12-08
  • ISBN : 9781347884065
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book The Wizard of the Nile written by Victor Herbert and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Last Egyptian

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  • Author : L. Frank Baum
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-06-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book The Last Egyptian written by L. Frank Baum and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Egyptian is a story of betrayal and vengeance reaching three generations, set in the Nile valley. The novel revolves around three protagonists, Gerald Winston, an Egyptologist, Kara, an Egyptian man, and Tadros, a dragoman. Kara learns about his rich history from his grandmother Princess Hatacha, who fled from Egypt when she was seventeen years old. Hatatcha is a vicious and vengeful old woman, but as she is dying, she gives Kara information about an immense treasure they have been surviving on. He meets Winston and travels with him to Cairo, where he falls in love with Aneth Consinor. Aneth was the granddaughter of Kara's grandfather, Lord Roane, making her his cousin. What adds to the exciting events is that Winston too falls in love with Aneth. The story contains several unimaginable turns, like the introduction of an Arab Sheikh in the story who helps Kara in his vicious deeds as he is tempted by Kara's treasure. The book is wonderfully written, with many conspiracies and traps and some amazing historical facts. The characters are absorbing and hold the reader's attention throughout.

Book Victor Herbert

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  • Author : Neil Gould
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2009-08-25
  • ISBN : 0823228738
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Victor Herbert written by Neil Gould and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Herbert is one of the giants of American culture. As a musician, conductor, and, above all, composer, he touched every corner of American musical life at the turn of the century, writing scores of songs, marches, concerti, and other works. But his most enduring legacy is on a different kind of stage, as one of the grandfathers of the modern musical theater. Now, Victor Herbert has the biography he deserves. Neil Gould draws on his own experience as a director, producer, and scholar to craft the first comprehensive portrait in fifty years of the Irish immigrant whose extraordinary talents defined the sounds of a generation and made contemporary American music possible. Mining a wealth of sources—many for the first time—Gould provides a fascinating portrait of Herbert and his world. Born in Dublin in 1859, Herbert arrived in the United States in 1886. From his first job in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera, Herbert went on to perform in countless festivals and concerts, and conduct the Pittsburgh Orchestra. In 1894, he composed his first operetta, Prince Ananias, and by the time of his death in 1924, he’d composed forty-two more—many of them, such as Naughty Marietta, spectacular Broadway hits. Along the way, he also wrote two operas, stage music for the Ziegfeld Follies, and the first full score for a motion picture, The Fall of a Nation. Gould brilliantly blends the musical and the theatrical, classical and popular, the public and the private, in this book. He not only gives a revealing portrait of Herbert the artist, entrepreneur, and visionary, but also recreates the vibrant world of the Herbert’s Broadway. Gould takes us inside the music itself—with detailed guides to each major work and recreations of great performances. He also makes strong connections between Herbert’s breakthrough compositions, such as the operetta Mlle. Modiste, and the later contributions of Rudolf Friml, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and other giants of the musical theater. As exuberant as Herbert himself, this book is also a chronicle of American popular culture during one of its most creative periods. For anyone enraptured by the sound of the American musical, this book is delightfully required reading.

Book Blood of the Nile

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  • Author : Shireen Nemnich
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2012-11-21
  • ISBN : 9781479142347
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Blood of the Nile written by Shireen Nemnich and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Eshe lives within the ancient lands of Egypt where Ra reigns supreme and the Nile gives life to all. Eshe is young, beautiful and secretly in love with her teacher, Baruti. Her father King Oba has sent for suitors from three tribes to come petition for her hand in marriage. Yet Eshe only wants Baruti, someone she cannot have or tell anyone about, not even him. Eshe struggles with her transformation into a vibrant woman and she's further thrust into turmoil when she meets her suitors. One of her suitors captures her attention and her teacher warns her to stay away from him. Yet he is beautiful to gaze upon with his honey kissed skin and dark eyes. But now she isn't sleeping well and her stomach burns with vivid dreams of tearing flesh and drinking blood. Then to top it all off the light of Ra is burning her eyes and she must stay within the shadows just as her teacher. Baruti's distraught with the death of his wife and disappears for many years only to be found hidden within the walls of the human king. Baruti lives in secrecy watching, guiding and teaching the king's daughter, Eshe. He's been in love with Eshe and knows she's his only salvation and the salvation of their people. A Seer has foretold that Baruti, son of Omari will be king and his wife will be queen to the First Ones ? Vampires. But there is more than one vampire manipulating their lives and if Baruti loses Eshe he's vowed that the Nile will run red with the blood of humanity.

Book Mara  Daughter of the Nile

Download or read book Mara Daughter of the Nile written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a three-time Newbery Honoree and Edgar Award-winning author comes this compelling story of adventure, romance, and intrigue, set in ancient Egypt.

Book Life

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  • Author : John Ames Mitchell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Opera Glass

Download or read book The Opera Glass written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opera Glass

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Opera Glass written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anything Goes

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  • Author : Ethan Mordden
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-08
  • ISBN : 0199313571
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Anything Goes written by Ethan Mordden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless energy and enthusiasm buttressed by an arsenal of smart anecdotes" (Wall Street Journal). Now Mordden offers an entirely fresh and infectiously delightful history of American musical theatre. Anything Goes stages a grand revue of the musical from the 1700s through to the present day, narrated in Mordden's famously witty, scholarly, and conversational style. He places us in a bare rehearsal room as the cast of Oklahoma! changes history by psychoanalyzing the plot in the greatest of the musical's many Dream Ballets. And he gives us tickets for orchestra seats on opening night-raising the curtain on the pleasures of Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and the thrill of Porgy and Bess. Mordden examines the music, of course, but also more neglected elements. Dance was once considered as crucial as song; he follows it from the nineteenth century's zany hoofing to tap "combinations" of the 1920s, from the injection of ballet and modern dance in the 1930s and '40s to the innovations of Bob Fosse. He also explores the changing structure of musical comedy and operetta, and the evolution of the role of the star. Fred Stone, the avuncular Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, seldom varied his acting from part to part; but the versatile Ethel Merman turned the headlining role inside out in Gypsy, playing a character who was selfish, fierce, and destructive. From "ballad opera" to burlesque, from Fiddler on the Roof to Rent, the history and lore of the musical unfolds here in a performance worthy of a standing ovation.

Book Harry B  Smith

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  • Author : John Franceschina
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2004-03-01
  • ISBN : 1135949077
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Harry B Smith written by John Franceschina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer of librettos for the American musical theatre in history, with nearly half of his 300 works actually opening in New York City. In addition, Smith was instrumental in adapting and popularizing foreign musicals in America, significantly influencing writing and composing styles of American shows. He worked with every major composer in America between 1880 and 1920, and consequently this examination of his work and process is highly instructive of the history of the American musical.

Book Godey s Lady s Book

Download or read book Godey s Lady s Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Godey s Magazine

Download or read book Godey s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: