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The Collector Of Treasures
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Author : Bessie Head
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1992
The Collector Of Treasures written by Bessie Head and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.
The Collector Of Treasures And Other Botswana Village Tales
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Author : Bessie Head
language : en
Publisher: London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational
Release Date : 1977
The Collector Of Treasures And Other Botswana Village Tales written by Bessie Head and has been published by London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Botswana categories.
A collection of short stories based on life in a Botswanan village, including the story of a woman who murders the husband who deserted her years before.
The Collector Of Treasures And Other Botswana Village Tales
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Author : Bessie Head
language : en
Publisher: London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational
Release Date : 1977
The Collector Of Treasures And Other Botswana Village Tales written by Bessie Head and has been published by London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Botswana categories.
A collection of short stories based on life in a Botswanan village, including the story of a woman who murders the husband who deserted her years before.
The Collector Of Treasures
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Author : Bessie Head
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Collector Of Treasures written by Bessie Head and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Botswana categories.
Finding Treasure
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Author : Michelle Schaub
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-17
Finding Treasure written by Michelle Schaub and has been published by Charlesbridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Clever poems tell the story of one inquisitive child's quest to start just the right collection to share at school. While everyone else is excited about presenting their treasures, one creative elementary schooler is stressed about her class's show-and-tell assignment. How is she supposed to share her collection if she doesn't collect anything? Polling her parents, visiting with Granny and Grandpa, and searching for the secret behind her siblings' obsession with baseball cards, she discovers she does, in fact, have something to share: a collection of stories and poems!
Maru
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Author : Bessie Head
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1995
Maru written by Bessie Head and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Africa categories.
The moving tale of an ophaned Masarwa girl who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her presence polarises a community which does not see Masarwa people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast.
In A Jar
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Author : Deborah Marcero
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-01-21
In A Jar written by Deborah Marcero and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-21 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Here's a marvelous picture book, charmingly written and beautifully illustrated, about the power of memory and the magic of friendship. Llewellyn, a little rabbit, is a collector. He gathers things in jars--ordinary things like buttercups, feathers, and heart-shaped stones. Then he meets another rabbit, Evelyn, and together they begin to collect extraordinary things--like rainbows, the sound of the ocean, and the wind just before snow falls. And, best of all, when they hold the jars and peer inside, they remember all the wonderful things they've seen and done. But one day, Evelyn has sad news: Her family is moving away. How can the two friends continue their magical collection--and their special friendship--from afar?
The China Collectors
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Author : Karl E. Meyer
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2015-03-10
The China Collectors written by Karl E. Meyer and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Art categories.
Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks' removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country's patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland's Sherman Lee and Kansas City's Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast's hegemony. Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony?
The Collector
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Author : Natalya Semenova
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-11
The Collector written by Natalya Semenova and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with History categories.
A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to acquire works by Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. A trailblazer in the Russian art world, Shchukin and his collection shocked, provoked, and inspired awe, ridicule, and derision among his contemporaries. This is the first English-language biography of Sergei Shchukin, written by art historian Natalya Semenova and adapted by Shchukin's grandson André Delocque. Featuring personal diary entries, correspondence, interviews, and archival research, it brings to light the life of a man who has hitherto remained in the shadows, and shows how despite his controversial reputation, he opened his collection to the public, inspiring a future generation of artists and changing the face of the Russian art world.
When Rain Clouds Gather
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Author : Bessie Head
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 2013-09-23
When Rain Clouds Gather written by Bessie Head and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-23 with Fiction categories.
Rural Botswana is the backdrop for When Rain Clouds Gather, the first novel published by one of Africa’s leading woman writers in English, Bessie Head (1937–1986). Inspired by her own traumatic life experiences as an outcast in Apartheid South African society and as a refugee living at the Bamangwato Development Association Farm in Botswana, Head’s tough and telling classic work is set in the poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, a haven to exiles. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionize the villagers’ traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief, and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community. Head’s layered, compelling story confronts the complexities of such topics as social and political change, conflict between science and traditional ways, tribalism, the role of traditional African chiefs, religion, race relations, and male–female relations.