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Cubitt, Gerald und Peter Joyce: Journey through South Africa. 1997. ISBN: 1868256928
South Africa is a land of striking contrasts and great challenges, of many different cultures and diverse, often conflicting values - a mix which is at once the root of its dilemma and the source of its huge potential. The country has only recently emerged from its troubled past, and the precise parameters of its future remain uncertain. Yet on one aspect there is universal agreement: it is a beautifnl land, and the much-heard marketing claim is valid: it really is 'a world in one country'. The traveller is faced with an almost unlimited choice of what to see and do: mountains of breath-taking grandeur, some snow-capped in winter; deserts of sand and scrub and heat-hazed hori-zons; the great treeless plains of the interior; bushveld and woodland and lush wineland Valleys; the cliffs and hüls and sun-drenched shores of a coastline of countless splendours and, above all, a wildlife and floral abundance that is unparalleled anywhere in the world. It is this visual wonder that Gerald Cubitt has captured on film. Few photographers can have travelled as widely throughout South Africa as he has done, photographing the land and its people. His work is acclaimed internationally, and from his extensive collection of pictures, some 500 of the best have been selected for Journey through South Africa, which takes the read-er on a tour which not only reveals the expected highlights but also reaches into many seldom-visited byways. Peter Joyce's text and captions are an ideal companion to Cubitt's splendid pho-tographs, providing a wealth of Information about South Africa, presented in a relaxed and eminently readable style. It is this combination of beautiful photographs and factual writing that makes Journey through South Africa a book for the home, an ideal gift to family and friends overseas, and a wonderful memento for those who have made their own journey through the land. 1868256928

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Gregor Dallas: 1918: War and Peace, London Pimlico 2002
ISBN: 0712671544 New

On the night of 7 November 1918 French troops at La Capelle, on the Western Front, noticed a soft halo develop in the fog over no man's land. They heard the rumble of cars, then perceived the vague form of a huge white flag: the Germans were crossing the line to seek peace. But who were these Germans and what exactly did they represent? By the time they had signed an armistice, four days later, not even they knew. The Kaiser's Reich had collapsed and Germany faced chaos, while the war in Eastern Europe continued.This book traces the transition from war to peace across Europe. It follows the movement of armies over the northern plains, their collapse, their demoblization, and the effect this had on the material life of people. In Russia there had already been a revolution. In Germany, there were attempts to overthrow the provisional republican government. In Poland new wars broke out. At the same time, there was celebration in the West at the announcement of the Armistice. And the United States entered European politics with a new part to play.Dallas follows these dramatic events from the perspective of five capitals: Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow and Washington. In Berlin the cabarets and beer halls are open, while there is shooting in the streets. In the walled city of Paris, the peacemakers assemble to respond to the call for a League of Nations. Pantomime season opens in London, where Lloyd George holds elections and reorganizes his War Cabinet; John Maynard Keynes of the Treasury worries about debts. Contemporaries describe Moscow as a scene of desolation; but Lenin insists on setting up the Third International. Washington is divided between those who want to open America to the world, and those who would prefer the world to go away.The start of peace is more complex and fascinating than the start of war; it sets the habits and builds the patterns of life for generations to come. This book weaves politics, ideas, social life, fears, aspirations and harsh realities into a seamless reconstruction of life experienced at a great turning-point of history. 1st Printing Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Morris, Wright: Plains Song, For Female Voices - A Novel, NY Harper & Row, Publishers 1980
ISBN: 0-06-013047-4 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Irving Freeman; Book Design By Stephanie Winkler

First printing of the Harper hardcover edition. Winner of the National Book Award. viii, 232pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering, blindstamped publisher's emblem front cover, brown endpapers, deckled fore-edge. Dust jacket price 9.95. Review Copy with Publisher's letter laid-in. Signed by Morris to half-title page. Book and Dust jacket are in Fine, bright and crisp condition. No remainder markings. Wright [Marion] Morris was an award-winning American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Morris was consistently compared to Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson by critics. Winner of the National Book Awards for 'The Field of Vision' and 'Plains Song'; granted Guggenheim Fellowships n 1942, 1946, and 1954; 1975 winer of the Mari Sandoz Award recognizing "significant, enduring contribution to the Nebraska book world"; 1979 received the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award; 1981, he won the Los Angeles Times' Book Prize Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement." - wikipedia. "This 1981 National Book Award winner links three generations of Midwestern women to a form of unison singing in unmeasured time known as plainsong. "Morris writes compellingly of women, of loneliness and contradictory needs, of the half-submerged life, a plainsong that is all too seldom heard." - Publishers Weekly. "It "is at once a song of the Plains and plainsong melody which illuminates the beauty and complexity of human life." The plot follows the female members of a family living in Nebraska from the late 1800s to modern times. It remains "rich in sensory detail, controlled in style, and powerful in impact." - Library Journal. "Wright Morris knows the embattled regions within his people as well as the harshly beautiful landscapes that surround them." - New Republic. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Review Copy

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BODMER, Karl (1809-1893): Ischohä-Kakoschochatä. Dance of the Mandan Indians [Vig. 25]

[Leipzig: Schmidt and Guenther, 1922]. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by N. Desmadryl after Bodmer. Tears to upper and lower blank margins not affecting plate area. 9 3/4 x 13 inches. 12 3/4 x 16 inches. From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. (David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 85, p.1 Here, Bodmer ably depicts all the energy, excitement, movement and proud intensity of the Mandan's dance. During the travelers winter sojourn at Fort Clark, Prince Maximilian recorded on 28th December 1833 that "About noon we again heard the Indian drums: several soldiers announced that the band which had lately purchased the dance of the half-shorn head. The whole company, very gaily and handsomely dressed, soon afterwards entered the fort..About twenty vigorous young men, with the upper part of the body naked...painted and ornamented in the most gaudy manner, formed a circle in the courtyard of the fort. As soon as the drum was beat, the dancers bent their bodies forward, leaped up with both feet together...In this manner they danced for about a minute in a circle, then gave a loud shout, and, having rested a little, began the dance again, and so on alternately..' Karl Bodmer's images show great versatility and technical virtuosity and give us a uniquely accomplished and detailed picture of a previously little understood (and soon to vanish) way of life. Swiss-born Bodmer was engaged by Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867) specifically to provide a record of his travels in North America, principally among the Plains Indians. In the company of David Dreidoppel (Prince Maximilian's servant and hunting companion), their travels in North America were to last from 1832 to 1834. Well-armed with information and advice, the party finally left St.Louis, on the most important stage of their travels, aboard the steamer Yellow Stone on April 10 1833. They proceeded up the treacherous Missouri River along the line of forts established by the American Fur Company. At Bellevue they encountered their first Indians, then went on to make contact with the Sioux tribe, learning of and recording their little known ceremonial dances and powerful pride and dignity. Transferring from the Yellow Stone to another steamer, the Assiniboin, they continued to Fort Clark, visiting there the Mandan, Mintari and Crow tribes, then the Assiniboins at Fort Union, the main base of the American Fur Company. On a necessarily much smaller vessel they journeyed through the extraordinary geological scenery of that section of the Missouri to Fort Mackenzie in Montana, establishing a cautious friendship with the fearsome Blackfeet. From this, the westernmost point reached, it was considered too dangerous to continue and the return journey downstream began. The winter brought its own difficulties and discomforts, but Bodmer was still able to execute numerous studies of villages, dances and especially the people, who were often both intrigued and delighted by his work. The portraits are particularly notable for their capturing of individual personalities, as well as forming a primary account of what were to become virtually lost cultures. "David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 1985, p.18. Cf.Graff 4648; cf. Howes M443a; cf. Pilling 2521; cf. Sabin 47014; cf. Wagner-Camp 76:1.

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