[PDF] The Land Of Good Hope eBook

Author : Carla Liesching
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : 9781913620424

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In 'Good Hope', Carla Liesching constructs a fragmented visual and textual assemblage that orbits around the gardens and grounds at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ? a historic location at the height of Empire, now an epicenter for anti-colonial resistance movements, and also the place of the artist?s birth. Named by the Portuguese in their ?Age of Discovery?, the Cape?s position at the mid-point along the ?Spice Route? was viewed with great optimism for its potential to open up a valuable maritime passageway. The ?refreshment station? later established there set into motion flows of capital from ?east? to ?west?. Good Hope brings together cumulative layers of documentary prose, personal essay, and found photographic material, along with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, and National Geographic and Life magazines, to contemporary newspapers and family albums. It offers both an intimate and critical examination of White supremacist settler-colonialism in the present, and a questioning of the ethics and politics involved in the very acts of looking, discovering, collecting, codifying, preserving, naming, knowing, and putting to language

Author : Malcolm Jack
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1684480000

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Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Jonny Steinberg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473523079

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When Asad was eight years old, his mother was shot in front of him. With his father in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that has scattered the Somali people throughout the world. This extraordinary book tells Asad’s story. Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a bewildering number of places, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to towns deep in the Ethiopian desert. By the time he reached the cusp of adulthood, Asad had made good as a street hustler, brokering relationships between hardnosed Ethiopian businessmen and bewildered Somali refugees. He also courted the famously beautiful Foosiya, and married her, to the astonishment of his peers. Buoyed by success in work and in love, Asad put $1,200 in his pocket and made his way down the length of the African continent to Johannesburg, whose streets he believed to be lined with gold. So began an adventure in a country richer and more violent than he could possibly have imagined. A Man of Good Hope is the story of a person shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human – personal possessions, parents, siblings. And yet Asad’s is an intensely human life, one suffused with dreams and desires and a need to leave something of permanence on this earth.

Author : Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1594039380

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For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is especially needed today, to shape and deepen young Americans’ sense of the land they inhabit, help them to understand its roots and share in its memories, all the while equipping them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. Too often they reflect a fragmented outlook that fails to convey to American readers the grand trajectory of their own history. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding and its aspirations; and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. Of course, it goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale of the past. It will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But as Land of Hope brilliantly shows, there is no contradiction between a truthful account of the American past and an inspiring one. Readers of Land of Hope will find both in its pages.

Author : Herbert Moore
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780282642150

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Excerpt from The Land of Good Hope This book is intended primarily for the use of missionary Study Circles The special method of treating the subject matter which it contains _should not, how ever, prevent it from appealing to the Wider public. The area to which it relates is limited to Africa south of the River Zam besi. A large part of the book deals with the work which the various mission ary societies are carrying on amongst the native peoples, whilst one chapter is de voted to the efforts which are being made by the English and Dutch to minister to the religious wants of their own people. Each chapter has been read and (with the consent of the author) revised by a com mittee composed of persons who have had experience in the conduct of Study Circles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Roxane Dhand
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category : Betrayal
ISBN : 014378966X

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"In 1683 life is gruelling for the young women in Amsterdam's civic orphanage. The sole light in Johanna Timmerman's existence is her forbidden love for Frans, an orphan in the boys' section who has a smile like sunshine. Then he is gone, whisked across the globe to the Dutch East India Company's nascent colony at Good Hope. Floriane Peronneau's privileged world is pleasant and fulfilling until she discovers that it is all built on lies. Far from being the devoted gentleman he seems, her husband Claes is a womanizing degenerate who has led them to the edge of ruin. And the forces are closing in on him. While Johanna's love drives her to make a shocking bargain to secure passage to the Cape, Floriane is caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse. The two women's lives could not be more different. Yet, on the long, dangerous voyage to the southern tip of Africa, they will become the best of friends - and co-conspirators . . ."--Publisher.

Author : Peter Pickford
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781843308263

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This stunning book follows the year-long journey of authors Peter & Beverly Pickford across Africa, from Cape Town in South Africa to Tangier in Morocco. Outstanding photography of Africa's rich wildlife, rugged landscapes and diverse population, accompanied by rich vignettes of each country visited and captivating stories of features and events, combine to produce a spectacular celebration of every aspect of this fascinating continent. The authors are renowned for their individual and arresting photography, which in Forever Africa runs the full spectrum from evocative and exciting through startling and harsh to the serene and beautiful. Similarly, their narrative combines personal experience with a sense of history and empathy for the land and people. Forever Africa is a timeless book that will hold the attention of even the most casual reader.