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Author : C. S. Forester
Release : 1984-06
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Book Synopsis The African Queen by : C. S. Forester
Download or read book The African Queen written by C. S. Forester. This book was released on 1984-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Sayer joins forces with the Cockney pilot of a dilapidated steam launch in a desperate journey along a Central African river
Author : Linda M. Heywood
Release : 2019-01-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Njinga of Angola by : Linda M. Heywood
Download or read book Njinga of Angola written by Linda M. Heywood. This book was released on 2019-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of history’s most multifaceted rulers but little known in the West, Queen Njinga rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Today, she is revered in Angola as a heroine and honored in folk religions. Her complex legacy forms a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.
Author : Rachel Holmes
Release : 2009-03-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis African Queen by : Rachel Holmes
Download or read book African Queen written by Rachel Holmes. This book was released on 2009-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward sex and race, exploitation and colonialism, prurience and science. In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom. Born into a herding tribe known as the Eastern Cape Khoisan, Saartjie was barely out of her teens when she was orphaned and widowed by colonial war and forced aboard a ship bound for England. A pair of clever, unscrupulous showmen dressed her up in a body stocking with a suggestive fringe and put her on the London stage as a “specimen” of African beauty and sexuality. The Hottentot Venus was an overnight sensation. But celebrity brought unexpected consequences. Abolitionists initiated a lawsuit to win Saartjie’s freedom, a case that electrified the English public. In Paris, a team of scientists subjected her to a humiliating public inspection as they probed the mystery of her sexual allure. Stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped, and ridiculed, Saartjie came to symbolize the erotic obsession at the heart of colonialism. But beneath the costumes and the glare of publicity, this young Khoisan woman was a person who had been torn from her own culture and sacrificed to the whims of fashionable Europe. Nearly two centuries after her death, Saartjie made headlines once again when Nelson Mandela launched a campaign to have her remains returned to the land of her birth. In this brilliant, vividly written book, Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Saartjie’s extraordinary story–a story of race, eros, oppression, and fame that resonates powerfully today.
Author : Giles Foden
Release : 2010-03-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure by : Giles Foden
Download or read book Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure written by Giles Foden. This book was released on 2010-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is water to float a ship—even if the body of water in question is a remote African lake and the enemy an intimidating fleet of German steamers. The leader of this improbable mission is Geoffrey Spicer-Simson whose navy career thus far had been distinguished by two sinkings. His seemingly impossible charge: to trek overland through the African bush hauling Mimi and Toutou—two forty-foot mahogany gunboats–with a band of cantankerous, insubordinate Scotsmen, Irishmen and Englishmen to defeat the Germans on Lake Tanganyika. With its powerfully evoked landscape, cast of hilariously colorful characters and remarkable story of hubris, ingenuity and perseverance, this incredibly bizarre story–inspiration for the classic film The African Queen–is history at its most entertaining and absorbing.
Author : Deynaba Farah
Release : 2019-09-28
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 820/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis African Queen by : Deynaba Farah
Download or read book African Queen written by Deynaba Farah. This book was released on 2019-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a refugee from Somalia coming to the united states at age nine, I had a lot to learn. I had to learn American culture, and my own culture as my parents were raising me to be a Somalian, and not an American. Sometimes those cultures clashed, and I was stuck in the middle, figuring out where I belong and where I did not. Moreover, who was I? Just like any student, I was bullied and ridiculed for my size and what I wore. As a shy introverted girl growing into a woman, I struggled to voice my opinions; I struggled to fight back at all. However, there was a voice inside that wanted to roar, but did know how to set it free. This book is a small compilation of twelve poems that are the manifestation of that voice that roared inside.
