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  • A Man of Good Hope

    One Man's Extraordinary Journey from Mogadishu to Tin Can Town

    by Jonny Steinberg

    When Asad was eight years old, his mother was shot in front of him. With his father in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that has scattered the Somali people throughout the world.This extraordinary book tells Asad’s story. Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a ... Read more

    € 9,49

  • The Peddler Spy; or, Dutchmen and Yankees A Tale of the Capture of Good Hope

    by J. W. DeForest

    series Classics To Go
    Few writers of sea stories throw around the personages of his narratives so much that is novel in character as this pleasing author. His plot and incidents, too, are widely out of the “beaten path”—he always gives us something new. In this admirable production we have such a commingling of the elements of parental affection and devotion, of singular and deeply stirring adventure, of the tenderness ... Read more

    € 1,08

  • India in the Fifteenth Century

    Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India in the Century preceding the Portuguese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope; from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources, now first Translated into English

    by R.H. Major

    series Hakluyt Society, First Series
    The volume contains the following accounts, edited, with an introduction: Narrative of the voyage of Abd-er-Razzak, Ambassador from Shah Rukh, A.H. 845, A.D. 1442.; The travels of Nicolò Conti in the East in the early part of the fifteenth century; The travels of Athanasius Nikitin, a native of Twer; The journey of Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, a Genoese. This is a new print-on-demand hardback ... Read more

    € 33,34

  • Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854

    Volume I: Jemima Kindersley, Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies (1777); and Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1812)

    by Carl Thompson

    series Chawton House Library: Women’s Travel Writings
    The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also ... Read more

    € 40,54

  • The Immigrant

    A Journey of Good Hope

    by Jennie Gungiah

    When South Africa ended its policy of racial segregation and peacefully transitioned to a democracy in 1994, Jennie Gungiah was filled with hope and patriotism. As a young teacher who had attended all-Indian segregated schools as a child, she was thrilled to have students of all races in her classroom. — rainbow children who represented the future of her beautiful country. But despite the ... Read more

    € 2,17