Eland 2010 (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. paperback, clean and tight, no inscriptions, no creasing, Very Good condition. ISBN: 9781906011161.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. This book combines the sensibility of a native from the island of South Uist with the eye of a travelling scholar of architecture.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Berber tribes of the Mountains of Morocco are one of the great and inspiring survival stories of our times. They have occupied their mountain homelands since before the dawn of history, and travellers have long marvelled at how their music, dance, pre-historic rock carvings, traditional jewelry, tattoos, indigenous pottery, embroideries and carpets have all been impregnated with the wild soul of their fierce mountainous landscape. Never before have their traditional odes - which open up to us a precious window into a Homeric nobility and spiritualized landscape - been translated into English. Michael Peyron who has taught, explored and researched the history of the Berbers of Morocco over the last fifty years, has an exceptional understanding of this region and a unique archive of oral transmissions from some of the last bards uninfluenced by the modern world. This collection is both a gift to travellers and a priceless legacy. …

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xxxviii,482pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 9781906011444.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Features a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. This book also builds a complex picture of a people struggling to retain their identity in the face of insistent hostility, and to stand against the all-but-overwhelming fire-power of capitalism.