Author: Paul Hulton
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000153533
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This work outlines the life of James Bruce of Kinnard, and Luigi Balugani and his relationship with James Bruce.
Luigi Balugani's Drawings of African Plants
Plotting to Stop the British Slave Trade
Author: Jane Aptekar Reeve
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728396263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West’s ‘Enlightenment’ period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant’s art-work), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a ‘subversive’ mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends’ drive to destroy the principal source of their own country’s wealth. This was achieved in 1807. Like Bruce himself, in my book I address neglected aspects of the ancient habit of slavery and the related abuse of —particularly —women. Bruce’s Travels (1790) is a delightful —although massive —read. Therefore I sketch the geo-historical and faith background to Bruce’s work, convey the ‘feel’ of his book, and add to the known facts of his life a great deal of newly discovered material. This includes the international range of Bruce’s friends and collaborators, from Rome to Cairo to Bethlehem in the newly constituted U.S.A. Change is agonisingly slow to take hold. It was possibly because Bruce ‘only’ wrote about Africa that he has been trivialised, and his biography has never previously been fully responsibly researched.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728396263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West’s ‘Enlightenment’ period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant’s art-work), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a ‘subversive’ mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends’ drive to destroy the principal source of their own country’s wealth. This was achieved in 1807. Like Bruce himself, in my book I address neglected aspects of the ancient habit of slavery and the related abuse of —particularly —women. Bruce’s Travels (1790) is a delightful —although massive —read. Therefore I sketch the geo-historical and faith background to Bruce’s work, convey the ‘feel’ of his book, and add to the known facts of his life a great deal of newly discovered material. This includes the international range of Bruce’s friends and collaborators, from Rome to Cairo to Bethlehem in the newly constituted U.S.A. Change is agonisingly slow to take hold. It was possibly because Bruce ‘only’ wrote about Africa that he has been trivialised, and his biography has never previously been fully responsibly researched.
Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004537511
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004537511
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past.
The Journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa
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ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Veld & flora
Author:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Biodiversity Research in the Horn of Africa Region
Author: Ib Friis
Publisher: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN: 9788778762467
Category : Biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN: 9788778762467
Category : Biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
African Research & Documentation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Ethiopia
Author: Stuart C. Munro-Hay
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An annotated bibliography of some 600 resources on aspects of the country including history and prehistory, archaeology, politics, famine, travel, language, and foreign policy. Includes sections listing journals and conference proceedings, bibliographies and reference works, and dissertations and theses, plus a chronology, a list of rulers, and an introduction outlining the country's history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An annotated bibliography of some 600 resources on aspects of the country including history and prehistory, archaeology, politics, famine, travel, language, and foreign policy. Includes sections listing journals and conference proceedings, bibliographies and reference works, and dissertations and theses, plus a chronology, a list of rulers, and an introduction outlining the country's history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Garden
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The History of Natural History
Author: Gavin D. R. Bridson
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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