Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge
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Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge
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Author : Henry de Monfreid
language : fr
Publisher: Grasset
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge written by Henry de Monfreid and has been published by Grasset this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Henry de Monfreid arrive à trente-deux ans à Djibouti où il devient commerçant en cuirs et cafés. Cette existence le lasse vite, et il achète un boutre, engage deux matelots somalis, un mousse et se lance dans l'aventure. La pêche aux perles d'abord, puis surtout le commerce des armes. Ce ne sont plus que bagarres, poursuites, chassés-croisés entre trafiquants et policiers de la mer, tempêtes, sur cette mer Rouge qui retint Henry de Monfreid sa vie durant et qui fascinera tous les lecteurs de cette extraordinaire épopée.
Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge
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Author : Henri de Monfreid
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge written by Henri de Monfreid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Africa categories.
Red Sea Citizens
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Author : Jonathan Miran
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-06
Red Sea Citizens written by Jonathan Miran and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-06 with Business & Economics categories.
In the late 19th century, the port of Massawa, in Eritrea on the Red Sea, was a thriving, vibrant, multiethnic commercial hub. Red Sea Citizens tells the story of how Massawa rose to prominence as one of Northeast Africa's most important shipping centers. Jonathan Miran reconstructs the social, material, religious, and cultural history of this mercantile community in a period of sweeping change. He shows how Massawa and its citizens benefited from migrations across the Indian Ocean, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the African interior. Miran also notes the changes that took place in Massawa as traders did business and eventually settled. By revealing the dynamic processes at play, this book provides insight into the development of the Horn of Africa that extends beyond borders and boundaries, nations and nationalism.
Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge
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Author : Henri de Monfreid
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
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Shanghai On The Metro
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Author : Michael B. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Shanghai On The Metro written by Michael B. Miller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with History categories.
Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, and con men—they all play a part in Michael B. Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, Shanghai on the Métro shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literature emerged between the two world wars, reflecting the atmosphere and concerns of these years. Miller argues that French fascination with intrigue between the wars reveals a far more assured and playful national mood than historians have hitherto discerned in the final decades of the Third Republic. But the larger history set in motion by World War I and the subsequent reading of French history into global history are the true subjects of this work. Reconstituting through his own narratives the histories of interwar travel and adventure and the willful turning of contemporary affairs into a source of romance, Miller recovers the ambience and special qualities of the age that produced its intrigues and its tales of spies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Encyclopedia Of French Film Directors
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Author : Philippe Rège
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-12-11
Encyclopedia Of French Film Directors written by Philippe Rège and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Cinema has been long associated with France, dating back to 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumi_re screened their works, the first public viewing of films anywhere. Early silent pioneers Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy BlachZ and others followed in the footsteps of the Lumi_re brothers and the tradition of important filmmaking continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895. From undisputed masters to obscure one-timers, nearly 3,000 directors are cited here, including at least 200 filmmakers not mentioned in similar books published in France. Each director's entry contains a brief biographical summary, including dates and places of birth and death; information on the individual's education and professional training; and other pertinent details, such as real names (when the filmmaker uses a pseudonym). The entries also provide complete filmographies, including credits for feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television work. Some of the most important names in the history of film can be found in this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age_Jean Renoir and RenZ Clair_to French New Wave artists such as Fran_ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
Pearls People And Power
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Author : Pedro Machado
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-27
Pearls People And Power written by Pedro Machado and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-27 with History categories.
Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices of both coastal and inland areas, the overwhelming majority have confined themselves to highly localized or at best regional studies of the pearl trade. By contrast, this book stresses how pearling and the exchange in pearl shell were interconnected processes that brought the ports, islands, and coasts into close relation with one another, creating dense networks of connectivity that were not necessarily circumscribed by local, regional, or indeed national frames. Essays from a variety of disciplines address the role of slaves and indentured workers in maritime labor arrangements, systems of bondage and transoceanic migration, the impact of European imperialism on regional and local communities, commodity flows and networks of exchange, and patterns of marine resource exploitation between the Industrial Revolution and Great Depression. By encompassing the geographical, cultural, and thematic diversity of Indian Ocean pearling, Pearls, People, and Power deepens our appreciation of the underlying historical dynamics of the many worlds of the Indian Ocean. Contributors: Robert Carter, William G. Clarence-Smith, Joseph Christensen, Matthew S. Hopper, Pedro Machado, Julia T. Martínez, Michael McCarthy, Jonathan Miran, Steve Mullins, Karl Neuenfeldt, Samuel M. Ostroff, and James Francis Warren.
Oceanic Histories
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Author : David Armitage
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
Oceanic Histories written by David Armitage and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.
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language : en
Publisher: Editions Bréal
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Adventures Of A Hashish Smuggler
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Author : Henri de Monfreid
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2017-04-26
Adventures Of A Hashish Smuggler written by Henri de Monfreid and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-26 with Travel categories.
Nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin, Henri de Monfreid lived by his own account “a rich, restless, magnificent life” as one of the great travelers of his or any age. The son of a French artist who knew Paul Gaugin as a child, de Monfreid sought his fortune by becoming a collector and merchant of the fabled Persian Gulf pearls. He was then drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs. Infamous as well as famous, his name is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. De Monfreid (1879 to 1974) had a long life of many adventures around the Horn of Africa where he dodged pirates as well as the authorities. In Adventures of a Hashish Smuggler, de Monfreid, who was not particularly law-abiding by nature and was essentially a professional gunrunner, tells the story of his one foray into the world of hashish smuggling during the 1920s. The source of the hashish was Greece, where hemp was openly grown. The market was Egypt, where the British government had banned the popular drug. When de Monfreid got the notion of going to Greece to purchase hashish to smuggle into Egypt, he didn’t even know what hashish looked like. De Monfreid arranged to have 600 kilos of hashish brought from Greece to Marseilles and then into Djibouti, a French colony. From there, he sailed with it in his own “boutre” or dhow and a loyal crew of natives (assembled when he had run the pearl-diving operation) up the Red Sea to Suez, from where the shipment was carried on to Cairo by camel caravan. Along the way de Monfreid had several close calls and met a number of colorful characters. Shortly after de Monfreid’s venture, the Greek monarchy was turned out and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. Under strong pressure and with economic inducements from Great Britain, the new Greek government outlawed the production of hashish.