für 4.72€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Das Bändchen aus der Feder des Herisauer Lokalhistorikers und Museumsgründers Albert Kläger lädt ein zu geschichtlichen Spaziergängen durch die facettenreiche Gemeinde. Der Bogen der von persönlichen Erinnerungen geprägten und manche «Dorflegende» weitertragenden Erzählungen ist weitgespannt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Geschichte von Häusern und Menschen. Witzige Begebenheiten und mancherlei Anekdoten beleben die von zahlreichen Abbildungen begleiteten Berichte. Strassenzüge und Museumsstücke beginnen zu sprechen, bedeutende Persönlichkeiten und Dorforiginale werden lebendig. ····· 1017646851
für 12.92€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Mzansi, das ist das neue Südafrika: bunt, widersprüchlich, überwältigend. Ort des Untergangs und der guten Hoffnung, der hart erfochtenen Demokratie und der Polygamie, wo Gold, Geld und Glitzer auf weitläufige Wellblechslums treffen. Heimat einer westlich orientierten Gesellschaft, die sich zur Diagnose von Krankheiten am liebsten den toten Ahnen anvertraut. Begleiten Sie Elena Beis auf ihrer Reise durch die Viertel und Völker der Regenbogennation. Treffen Sie schillernde Mafiabosse und Miracle Doctors, lachen Sie bei einem politisch inkorrekten Comedy-Abend, streifen Sie durch die ebenso mörderischen wie herzerwärmend menschlichen Cape-Flats-Vororte und essen Sie auf die einzig richtige Art Bunny Chow. Am Ende werden Sie um 151 berührende Einblicke in dieses faszinierende Land reicher sein. Südafrika 151 ist eine einzigartige Dokumentation des Lebens an der Südspitze Afrikas. Erleben Sie in 151 Momentaufnahmen die Facetten von Kultur und Gesellschaft, begleitet von Geschichten, persönlichen Eindrücken und einem Blick hinter die Kulissen. Ein Buch für Entdecker und Liebhaber des neuen Südafrikas und diejenigen, die es werden wollen. Überarbeitete Neuauflage mit neuen beeindruckenden Momentaufnahmen! Klappenbroschur in Fadenheftung, komplett in Farbe, über 160 Fotos ····· 1017670080
für 13.45€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as `the bravest woman of all my knowledge`. Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However, on the death of her parents, she undertook an extraordinary decision: with no prior knowledge of the region, she set out alone to West Africa to pursue her anthropological interests and collect botanical specimens. Her subsequent book, published in 1897, is a testament to understatement and humour - few explorers made less of the hardships and dangers experienced while travelling (including unaccompanied treks through dangerous jungles and encounters with deadly animals). Travels in West Africa would challenge (as well as reinforce) contemporary Victorian prejudices about Africa, and also made invaluable contributions to the fields of botany and anthropology. Above all, however, it has stood the test of time as a gripping, classic travel narrative by a woman whose sense of adventure and fascination with Africa transformed her whole life. This Penguin edition includes a fascinating introduction by Dr Toby Green examining Victorian attitudes to Africa, along with explanatory notes by Lynnette Turner. Mary Kingsley was born in north London in 1862, the daughter of the traveller and physician George Kingsley and his former housekeeper, Mary Bailey. Her education was scant: while her younger brother was sent away to school, she stayed at home. Later she lived in Cambridge, and cared for her bedridden mother. Following the deaths of her parents, Kingsley embarked on a voyage to West Africa in August 1893, with the object of studying native religion and law and collecting zoological specimens. In December 1894, she undertook a second trip to the region, during which she became the first woman to climb West Africa`s highest mountain, Mount Cameroon. On returning home eleven months later, she wrote Travels in West Africa, which was published in 1897 and was followed by West African Studies in 1899. Kingsley made one final trip to Africa, enlisting as a volunteer nurse in South Africa during the Boer War. She had only been there for two months when she developed typhoid fever and died, on 3rd June 1900, before being buried at sea in accordance with her wishes. Lynnette Turner is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Edge Hill University. Toby Green is Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture at Kings College London. His book The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa appeared in 2011. ····· 101763018
für 14.37€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The author was a small-town girl a year out of the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor`s degree in economics when she married Alonzo W. Pond, a young archaeologist just back from a year in the Sahara. It was the 1920s. American women had won the right to vote and were launching out on non-traditional ventures. Museums were sponsoring expeditions in search of clues to humanity`s distant past.This is Dorothy L. Pond`s account of her experiences in Algeria between 1926 and 1930 as part of Logan Museum`s (Beloit College) expeditions to excavate Stone Age habitation sites. By 1928 the Ponds had an 18-month-old daughter in 1930 the staff had grown to 16, including 12 college boys. Dorothy describes both the mundane and the exotic from a woman`s point of view, from the daily work of archaeology and shopping trips to the local markets to moonlight strolls through Roman ruins. The book will be of particular interest to those interested in the behind-the scenes workings of early scientific expeditions as well as social history, anthropology, feminism in the 1920s, or simply a Midwestern American woman`s perspective on living and working in North Africa between the World Wars. Dorothy`s account is supplemented by an Afterword by archaeologists Mary Jackes and David Lubell, who worked in the same area decades later and have been analyzing material from the Pond expeditions. ····· 1017675409
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