[PDF] The Fairest Cape In All The World eBook

Author : Layton Alldredge
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2020-11-27
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When the Himalayas and the Rockies were mere foothills, Table Mountain looked down in lofty majesty on a world we cannot comprehend. From its rocky viewpoint it gazed down on prehistoric animals whose descendants still roam much of Africa. It watched the wanderings of Australopithicus and Homo habilis. It stood silently as the San people and the related Khoikhoi hunted and eventually domesticated livestock to become hunter/herders. It watched as the sails of early Portuguese navigators appeared above the horizon, to be followed by Dutch, French and English. It was impassive when Francis Drake dubbed it "the fairest cape in all the world". It watched the Trek-boers leave and the arrival of the Nguni and the Sotho. It has looked down without judgement on Jan van Riebeeck's fort, Nelson Mandela's imprisonment on Robben Island and Christiaan Barnard's historic heart transplant. Ahh, the stories it could tell if it could only talk.

Author : Malcolm Jack
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 18,93 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 : Malcolm Jack
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1684480043

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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 : Frank R. Sinclair
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 145000265X

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Frank Sinclair, author of Without Benefit of Clergy: Some Personal Footnotes to the Gurdjieff Teaching, has written a searching sequel to his earlier account of a life devoted to the exploration of the perennial wisdom. Drawn as a young man to the Greek-Armenian esotericist G.I. Gurdjieffs ideas about the Great Knowledgethe powerful ancient stream of true knowledge of beingSinclair has spent half a century in this vocation. The present book recounts his ponderings on the unfolding reality of the perennialist vision following a near-fatal brush with the outer darkness and the passing of his wife of almost 50 years. In the process, he delves into the timeless mysteries of life and death.

Author : Peter Hain
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1849542988

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Peter Hain has always spoken his mind. So he does in this book. Here he tells his story as an outsider turned insider: anti-apartheid militant to Cabinet minister, serving twelve years in Labour's government between May 1997 and May 2010. Growing up as the son of courageous anti-apartheid South Africans, Peter Hain was first in the public eye aged fifteen, reading at the funeral of an anti-apartheid friend hanged in Pretoria. Living in exile in Britain during his late teens, he led campaigns to disrupt whites-only South African sports tours. His political notoriety resulted in two extraordinary Old Bailey trials and a letter bomb. Hain recalls his role in negotiating the historic 2007 settlement in Northern Ireland, being Britain's first-ever African born Africa Minister, and acting as a passionate advocate and deliverer of devolved government to Wales. Featuring Iraq, Mugabe, Europe, Gibraltar, blood diamonds, work alongside MI5 and MI6, and the delivery of justice for workers robbed of their pensions and compensation for sick miners, Hain's autobiography gives a fascinating insight into life near the top of the Blair and Brown governments.

Author : Maria Tatar
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0674238605

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Versions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions of Walt Disney and the Brothers Grimm alongside other tellings, inviting readers to experience anew a beloved fantasy of melodrama and imagination.