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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Author | : Wilma Stockenstrom |
Publisher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1935744933 |
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Author | : Wilma Stockenstrom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781461958918 |
A truly remarkable contribution, both for the lyrical quality of its prose and for its boldly imaginative theme. World Literature Today
"In this Kingdom of Passing Fiction": Memory and Imagination in David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Wilma Stockenström's The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Author | : Allison (Allison Lynn) Fillmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author | : Lorna Sage |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1999-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521668132 |
An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia
Author | : G.E. Wickens |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 2008-03-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402064314 |
This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia. It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers the extraordinary variety of economic uses of baobabs. There are also appendices on vernacular names, gazetteer, economics, nutrition and forest mensuration. This book fills a gap in the botanical literature. It deals with a genus that has fascinated and intrigued scientists and lay persons for centuries.
The Voyage of the "Challenger."
Author | : Sir Charles Wyville Thomson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Challenger Expedition |
ISBN | : |
Narrative of an Exploring Voyage Up the Rivers Kwo'ra and Bi'nue (commonly Known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854
Author | : William Balfour Baikie |
Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
A Journey to Inner Africa
Author | : Egor Petrovich Kovalevskīĭ |
Publisher | : Amherst College Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1943208166 |
In 1847, Russian military engineer and diplomat Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky embarked on a journey through what is today Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, recording his impressions of a region in flux. Invited by Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali to look for gold and construct mines in the area between the Blue and White Nile, Kovalevsky captured the social milieu of both elites and ordinary people as well as compiled a rich record of the Upper Nile's climate and natural resources. A Journey to Inner Africa, masterfully translated into English for the first time by Anna Aslanyan, is both a tale of encounter between Russia and northern Africa and an important document in the history and development of the Russian imperial project. Contributions by Egor Kovalevsky, Anna Aslanyan, Sergey Glebov, David Schimmelpenninck, Mukaram Hhana, and Michal Wasiucionek