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Out of the Fire Into the Frying Pan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Out of the Fire Into the Frying Pan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making (1620-1850)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making (1620-1850)

This book presents a unique view of the work of the great Italian violin-makers from the 17th to the 19th centuries, based on the collection of The Royal Academy of Music in London. The Academy, founded in 1822, is Britain's senior conservatory and one of the oldest institutions in the world for advanced musical training. Included here are masterpieces by Amati, Cappa, Celoniato, Ceruti, Dalla Costa, Deconet, Gagliano, Grancino, Guadagnini, Guarneri, Landolfi, Pressenda, Rota, Rugeri, Seraphin, Sorsana, Stradivari, Tecchler, and Testore. This revised edition has an updated descriptive text, features 15 extra entries, devotes at least two full-color spreads to each instrument, and is suppleme...

Violin Making in Scotland, 1750-1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Violin Making in Scotland, 1750-1950

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Soldier-artist in Zululand
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

A Soldier-artist in Zululand

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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Opening the Eyelid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Opening the Eyelid

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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David Rattray's Guidebook to the Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

David Rattray's Guidebook to the Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields

South African born and bred, David Rattray's name is today synonymous with the Anglo-Zulu War. Now for the first time, his encyclopaedic knowledge is available to the reading public. With its magnificent colour artwork, including superb paintings, detailed maps and lively and informative text, this book will be greatly welcomed by both readers at home and visitors to the sites themselves.

Ways Of Staying
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Ways Of Staying

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-03
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  • Publisher: Granta Books

As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed and reported on the rising tide of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. But when his own cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions he'd been asking about the troubling political and social changes in his country took on a sickeningly personal urgency. Suddenly, it felt as though this South Africa was no longer the place he'd grown up in or the place which felt like home. Still stunned by the loss, Bloom begins to trace the path of violence from the murder of his cousin in the hills of Zululand to the fatal shooting of the historian David Rattray, linking these individual crimes to the riven political landscape, and the riots and xenophobic attacks of 2008. Visceral, complicated and compassionate, Ways of Staying is an eloquent account of how the white community is coping with black majority rule, and in particular how one family is coping in the aftermath of their own private tragedy.

The Hard Crowd
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Hard Crowd

A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.

Zulu Vanquished
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Zulu Vanquished

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 has become synonymous with Britain's humiliating defeat at Isandlwana and the equally heroic defense of Rorke's Drift, where little more than 140 British soldiers kept over 3,000 Zulu warriors at bay. But these two celebrated actions were only one part of a campaign that lasted for over six months and resulted in the destruction of the Zulu Kingdom, leading to a decade of civil war. Founded on a wealth of first-hand accounts, some published here for the first time, as well as the authors' intimate knowledge of the history and terrain of Zululand, Zulu Vanquished is a groundbreaking work that sheds light on the wider Anglo-Zulu conflict and will prove indispensable for scholars and enthusiasts alike.

Black Mirror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

Black Mirror

Poetry. Bilingual edition translated from the French by David Rattray. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907-1943) is considered one of the eminent poets of the Surrealist period. The visionary, sardonic, and often outrageous poems in this bilingual edition represent the first presentation of his work in English. With Rene Daumal he was the founder of the literary movement and magazine Le Grand Jeu, the essence of which he defined as "the impersonal instant of eternity in emptiness." "The glimpse of eternity in the void," writes Rattray in the Introduction, "was to send Daumal to Hinduism, the study of Yoga philosophy, and Sanskrit. It sent Lecomte on an exploration of what he called a 'metaphysics of absence.'" Rattray, a poet acclaimed for his translations of Artaud, keeps intact the power and originality of Gilbert-Lecomte's work.