Mafeking Road

Mafeking Road
Author: Herman Charles Bosman
Publisher: Archipelago
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1935744518

In a series of tales, South Africa’s greatest short story writer reveals a little-described—and rarely romanticized—world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th century Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit and clear-sighted judgment. Spun by the plainclothes local visionary and storyteller Oom Shalk Lourens, these moving and satirical glimpses of lethargic herdsmen, ambitious concertina players, legendary leopards and mambas, and love-struck dreamers lay bare immense emotions, contradictions, and mysteries within the smallest movements and unadorned talk of the Groot Marico District of the Transvaal province. Leading oral tradition by the hand into a territory all his own, Bosman maps a world at once lucid and layered, distant yet powerfully familiar.

Mafeking Road

Mafeking Road
Author: Herman Charles Bosman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1969
Genre: Marico River Region (Botswana and South Africa)
ISBN: 9780798102872

The Faulkner of South Africa: Transcendent glimpses into the human condition, of dreams and heartbreak, told with homespun wisdom.

Don't Tread On My Dreams

Don't Tread On My Dreams
Author: Dora Taylor
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-12-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 141520831X

Whether set in Cape Town, Johannesburg or the remoteness of lonely farms, these stories present an acute and heartfelt sensitivity for the troubles of ordinary people during apartheid. They provide a rare historical record of the times, revealing the hopes and dreams of people of all races, that are only now becoming a reality. Dora Taylor's powers of observation enable her to conjure up the vibrancy of a city, the squalor of a shanty town or the peace of the veld. Although the stories are often heart-rendingly tragic, there is always an underlying quality of hope, springing from the author’s intense desire that things should improve, an objective to which she devoted her life.

Government Gazette

Government Gazette
Author: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1901
Genre: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN:

War Commemoration and Civic Culture in the North East of England, 1854–1914

War Commemoration and Civic Culture in the North East of England, 1854–1914
Author: Guy Hinton
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030785939

This book examines a diverse set of civic war memorials in North East England commemorating three clusters of conflicts: the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion in the 1850s; the ‘small wars’ of the 1880s; and the Boer War from 1899 to 1902. Encompassing a protracted timeframe and embracing disparate social, political and cultural contexts, it analyses how and why war memorials and commemorative practices changed during this key period of social transition and imperial expansion. In assessing the motivations of the memorial organisers and the narratives they sought to convey, the author argues that developments in war commemoration were primarily influenced by – and reflected – broader socio-economic and political transformations occurring in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth century Britain.

Mushroom Growing Today

Mushroom Growing Today
Author: Fred C. Atkins
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-07-07
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1473394295

This fascinating text provides a detailed guide to the growing of mushrooms, containing a comprehensive treatise on the subject and detailing everything a prospective mushroom-grower could possibly need to know. Informative and accessible, this scarce text is the perfect introduction to the beginner, as well as constituting a great handbook for seasoned practitioners. Chapters included in this text include: What s a Mushroom?, History of Mushroom Growing, The Mushroom industry To-day, Cultivation Overseas, How Mushrooms are Grown, Mushrooms for the Amateur Gardener, Mushrooms for the Country Gentleman, Mushrooms for Nurserymen and Market Gardens, Building a Mushroom Farm, and many more. This scarce book has been elected for modern republication due to its educational value, and is proudly republished here complete with a new introduction to the subject.

Remembering Bosman

Remembering Bosman
Author: Stephen Gray
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143527118

A spellbinding and varied line-up of recollections of the star turn of the 20th-century South African literary scene. Included in this valuable tribute are detailed memoirs of four of Herman Charles Bosman's keepers of the flame: his colleague George Howard, his cousin Zita Grové, his disciple Lionel Abrahams; and the unpublished chapters by his widow, Helena Lake, never previously collected in book form. In addition there are souvenirs by Bosman's other wives and lovers. Tributes come from his press associates, while much intimate interview material is included to complete this strange portrait of Johannesburg's murderous blue-eyed boy. Their accumulated testimony here gives as good value as Bosman himself ever did during his embattled lifetime.

A History of South African Literature

A History of South African Literature
Author: Christopher Heywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004-11-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781139455329

This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.

The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase

The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase
Author: Geoffrey Barton
Publisher: Waterside Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-01-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1909976407

Not since the days of highwaymen and footpads had armed robbery been seen in London. Geoffrey Barton explains the political backdrop to the arrival in the UK of armed revolutionaries driven by their own frenzied missions, causing citizens to go in fear. Laws were passed to deal with aliens and terrorism but as the author explains the civil police were ill-equipped to deal with the problem. Although well known to local people, the Tottenham Outrage of 1909 when two Latvian robbers, Jewish refugees, intercepted a payroll has been comparatively hidden to the wider world (unlike the notorious Siege of Sydney Street which took place two years later). Resulting in the most spectacular police pursuit in history it involved a hundred police officers and up to a thousand citizens in running to ground two desperate police killers. The book follows every inch of the six-and-a-half miles and minute of the two-and-a-half hours of the chase. It also pays minute attention to the people and places involved as well as the aftermath. As former Head of Firearms Training Operations for the Metropolitan Police Service, Mike Waldren writes in his Foreword, ‘The officers…did their best relying on guts and determination to see them through an unprecedented incident.’ The first in-depth account of an iconic event - fascinating police, social and local history based on extensive first-hand research.

Bleeding London

Bleeding London
Author: Geoff Nicholson
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 269
Release: 1998-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590209281

The author of The City Under the Skin maps out “a delightful fiction, and a wonderfully exasperated love letter to a great city” (Kirkus Reviews). Like any international metropolis, London draws the most diverse characters to its bustling streets. Meet Mick. He’s on his way to the smoke from the provinces. He’s got six guys to find with only their names to go on, a lust for vengeance, and a city guide. Meet Stuart. Determined to walk each of the capital’s roads, streets, and alleyways, he’s a man on a mission . . . but has no plan for when there’s nowhere left to go. Meet Judy. She’s determined to leave her mark on London—one lover at a time—creating a virtual A–Z of sex in the city. “A book whose setting becomes as much a character as the people who pepper its pages, Bleeding London is dark, droll, and suspenseful.” —Library Journal “As packed with strange characters and comic and menacing incidents and characters as any night-bus . . . Nicholson obviously boasts a rich and arcane knowledge of the city and exploits it to the full.” —The Times (London) “Nicholson’s Bleeding London is a dark, frayed and filthy place . . . filled with weird sex, arbitrary violence and obscure threat . . . He produces comic lines when you least expect them, making you laugh out loud.” —New Statesman “An ambitious, clever and witty novel which attacks its subject with verve and humor.” —Literary Review