South Africa a Century Ago
Author: Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 346
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steven Robins
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2016-02-03
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 177609025X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old postcard-size photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room. Only later did he learn that the women were his father’s mother and sisters, photographed in Berlin in 1937, before they were killed in the Holocaust. Steven’s father, who had fled Nazi Germany before it was too late, never spoke about the fate of his family who remained there. Steven became obsessed with finding out what happened to the women, but had little to go on. In time he stumbled on official facts in museums in Washington DC and Berlin, and later he discovered over a hundred letters sent to his father and uncle from the family in Berlin between 1936 and 1943. The women who before had been unnamed faces in a photograph could now tell their story to future generations. Letters of Stone tracks Steven’s journey of discovery about the lives and fates of the Robinski family. It is also a book about geographical journeys: to the Karoo town of Williston, where his father’s uncle settled in the late nineteenth century and became mayor; to Berlin, where Steven laid ‘stumbling stones’ (Stolpersteine) in commemoration of his relatives; to Auschwitz, where his father’s siblings perished. Most of all, this book is a poignant reconstruction of a family trapped in an increasingly terrifying and deadly Nazi state, and of the immense pressure on Steven’s father in faraway South Africa, which forced him to retreat into silence.
Author: J. M. Coetzee
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780980270006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1631495968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Heartbreaking and inspiring,” Nelson Mandela’s Prison Letters reveals his evolution “into one of the great moral heroes of our time” (New York Times). First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe for one of the “greatest warriors of all time” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark collection, as well as six new letters that have never been published, this historic paperback provides an essential political history of the late twentieth century and illustrates how Mandela maintained his inner spirit while imprisoned. Whether they’re longing love letters to his wife, Winnie; heartrending notes to his beloved children; or articulations of a human-rights philosophy that resonates today, these letters reveal the heroism of a man who refused to compromise his moral values in the face of extraordinary human punishment, invoking a “story beyond their own words” (New York Times). This new paperback edition—essential for any literature lover, political activist, and student—positions Mandela among the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century.
Author: Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Flora Louisa Shaw
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2018-02-09
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781377293424
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Author: Isak Dinesen
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Published: 1984-04
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780226153117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written to her family, these letters recount the failure of Dinesen's marriage, the financial collapse of her husband's coffee plantation, and her experiences in Kenya
Author: Anne Lindsay Barnard
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Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781104470661
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