Author: Edward Powys Mathers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Zambesia, England's El Dorado in Africa ...
Author: Edward Powys Mathers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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The New Nature of Maps
Author: J. B. Harley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Zambesia, England's El Dorado in Africa
Author: Edward Peter Mathers
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Category : Rhodesia
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Rhodesia
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
Author: Neil Parsons
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226647456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
They were remarkably successful in gaining support, eventually swaying Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain into drafting the agreement that secured their territories against the encroachment of Rhodesia, leading indirectly to the independence of present-day Botswana.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226647456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
They were remarkably successful in gaining support, eventually swaying Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain into drafting the agreement that secured their territories against the encroachment of Rhodesia, leading indirectly to the independence of present-day Botswana.
Death and Compassion
Author: Dan Wylie
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776142209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary Elephants are in dire straits – again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion – or fail to do so – and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists’ accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776142209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary Elephants are in dire straits – again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion – or fail to do so – and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists’ accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society
Author: Royal Society of South Africa
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Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 3-6, 9-11, 14-16, 18.
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Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 3-6, 9-11, 14-16, 18.