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  • Hausa Tales and Traditions

    Being a translation of Frank Edgar's Tatsuniyoyi Na Hausa

    Edited by Neil Skinner ...
    First Published in 1969. This is a translation from Hausa of Frank Edgar’s three volumes of his African folktale, Tatsunijoyi Na Hausa, his major work. The Hausa whose folklore Edgar recorded so industriously are the largest ethnic group in Northern Nigeria and number many millions. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Hausa Tales and Traditions

    An English Translation of Tatsuniyoyi Na Hausa Originally Compiled by Frank Edgar

    Edited by Neil Skinner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1969, this book is a translation of Frank Edgar's Hausa folk stories, which was made primarily in Sokoto Province at the direction of Major John Alder, who in 1910 gave Edgar some Hausa texts written in the Ajemic script for transliteration into Roman characters. Edgar prepared the the first volme of the Tatsuniyoyi for publication in 1911. The Hausa whose folklore Edgar ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Ageing Resource Communities

    New frontiers of rural population change, community development and voluntarism

    Edited by Mark Skinner, Neil Hanlon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource frontier ageing, to understand the diverse experiences of and responses to rural population ageing in the ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Sport, History, and Heritage

    Studies in Public Representation

    by Jeffrey Hill, Jean Williams, Jed Smith, John K. Walton, Kevin Moore, Matthew Taylor, Max Dunbar, Mike McGuinness, Neil Skinner0, Ray Physick1, Richard Holt2, Santiago De Pablo3, Stephen Done4, Tim O'Sullivan5, Wray Vamplew6, Jason Wood8, Andrea Titterington9, Anthony Bateman0, Daphné Bolz1, David Storey2, Honor Godfrey3 ...
    Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully appreciated in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies. Sport and heritage have operated as seemingly separate spheres, yet together they can convey powerful messages; convergence between them is ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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    Trevor's World of Sport: The Complete Series 1-3

    by Andy Hamilton ...
    Narrated by Claire Skinner, Full Cast, Neil Pearson, Paul Reynolds ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Neil Pearson stars in Andy Hamilton’s BBC Radio 4 comedy series about a sports agent with a conscienceOne of the main movers and shakers at TS Sports Stars agency, Trevor Heslop is honest, decent and sensitive. Unfortunately, he works in a world of cut-throats and corruption, with nightmare clients and a rapacious partner with the morals of a barracuda. Add to that his dysfunctional family – ... Read more

    $23.98 CAD

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  • The Last Savanna

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    FIRST PRIZE FOR FICTION, Los Angeles Book Festival. "A stunning tale of love and loss amid a magnificent wilderness and its myriad animals, and a deadly manhunt through savage jungles, steep mountains and fierce deserts as an SAS commando tries to save the elephants, the woman he loves and the soul of Africa itself."With Africa's last elephants being killed for their ivory, Kenya rancher and ex ... Read more

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  • The Paragon Parrot

    And Other Inspirational Tales of Wisdom

    by Rumi ...
    Rumi is regarded by many as the world's greatest poet. This selection by Arthur Scholey provides a taster of Rumi's great work. Here are stories plucked from friends and folk tales and real life, embodying Sufi wisdom, kindness, courtesy and candour. ... Read more

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  • Memed, My Hawk

    by Yashar Kemal ...
    Translated by Edouard Roditi ...
    Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is dashed, and the young woman he loves murdered, Memed makes for the mountains to become an outlaw. Before long he has transformed from a young rebel to an infamous bandit, the scourge of corrupt oppressors and hero to the poor. With vividness and simplicity, Kemal's classic ... Read more

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  • True at First Light

    A Fictional Memoir

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer.A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • SOUTH AFRICAN FOLK-TALES - 44 African Stories for Children

    by Anon E. Mouse, Compiled by James A. Honey ...
    In this volume you will find forty-four uniquely South African tales. Stories of The Lost Message, The Monkey's Fiddle, The Leopard, The Ram and the Jackal, The Lion the Jackal and the Man, Tink-Tinkje, The Lioness and the Ostrich, Crocodile's Treason, The White Man and Snake, Tortoise Hunting Ostriches, The Judgment Of Baboon, When Lion Could Fly, The Origin Of Death and many more.It is with ... Read more

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  • Mother Earth

    by Chingiz Aitmatov, James Riordan ...
    Aitmatov is an enigma. For a start he is not Russian, but Kirgiz. Yet he has gained distinction through the medium of Russian. He writes not one but two versions of each work: first in Kirgiz, then in Russian, sometimes under a different title and in a different version, in the manner of Conrad, Nabokov and Narayan He is at once both liberal and conservative; he has been embraced by the Soviet ... Read more

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