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Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory
Paul Wojdak’s father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were banished to Siberia for rising against czarist Russia’s repressive policies aimed to destroy Polish language and culture, and they eventually lived in Siberia for generations. By the 1920s, war and chaos followed the Russian Revolution, and Poles were cast as “enemies of the people,” fleeing east as refugees. Most died from disease, starvation, cold, or violence, including Pawel’s parents, and many Polish children were tragically trapped in Siberia—a seven-year-old Pawel among them. Later in life, living in Canada with his wife and son, Pawel physically could not speak...
Ground Sea
Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder’s associative travelogue that takes Allan Sekula’s sequence Deep Six / Passer au bleu (1996/1998) as a touchstone for a dialogue with more recent artworks zooming in on the borderscape near the Channel Tunnel, such as those by Sylvain George and Bruno Serralongue. Combining ethnography, visual materials, political philosophy, cultural geography, and critical analysis, Ground Sea proceeds through an innovative methodological approach. Inspired by the meandering writings of W.G. Sebald, Javier Marías, and Roland Barthes, Van Gelder develops a style both interdisciplinary ...
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History of Māori of Nelson and Marlborough
"Volume One, Te Tangata me te Whenua - the people and the land, encompasses myths and legends of the region, the succession of tribes who have inhabited Te Tau Ihu o te Waka and their interactions, early encounters with Europeans, the arrival of the New Zealand Company, the Treaty of Waitangi, land transactions, and the administration of Maori Resserves." - p. 16.
Księga imion polskich
Contains explanations of the origins and meanings of various Polish names, along with their associated signs of the zodiac, planet, color, numbers, tarot-based characteristics, and more.
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