wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Folklore & Legends of Trinidad and Tobago
ISBN: 9789768054470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Folklore stories that make your hair stand on end! The folklore of Trinidad and Tobago has pan-Caribbean appeal, as it is shared in common with many former French territories in the region from Louisiana to Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica and St. Lucia.The beautifully illustrated book has been celebrated as a milestone publication in Trinidad and Tobago.
Folklore stories that make your hair stand on end! The folklore of Trinidad and Tobago has pan-Caribbean appeal, as it is shared in common with many f...
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176,70 zł |
The Cult of the Will (B&w Edition)
ISBN: 9789768054890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the black-and-white edition of the book "The Cult of the Will." This study deals with the complex issues of race, history and politics in Caribbean society. In its first part, "Francois Besson," it examines the fortunes of a French creole family between the mid-18th and early 20th centuries, and describes their experiences against the backdrop of the social and political conflicts occasioned by the excesses of plantation slavery and the upheavals of the French revolution. It looks at Julien Fedon's revolution of 1795 in Grenada, examines the nature of the relationship between master...
This is the black-and-white edition of the book "The Cult of the Will." This study deals with the complex issues of race, history and politics in Cari...
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146,28 zł |
Tales of the Paria Main Road
ISBN: 9789768244208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For Paria Publishing's 35th anniversary and in honour of Gerard A. Besson being awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West Indies, we are presenting a limited second edition of his first published work, Tales of the Paria Main Road. First published in 1973, this whimsical book began Gerard's journey into publishing, which lead to the formation of Paria Publishing Company Limited. Tales of the Paria Main Road is comprised of three short stories loosely based on the mis-adventures of Jerry and his friends as a young men in Trinidad during the 1960/70's. It touches on the...
For Paria Publishing's 35th anniversary and in honour of Gerard A. Besson being awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West Indies, we...
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134,11 zł |
The Voice in the Govi (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9789768054883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Historian and folklorist Gerard Besson takes you back in time to the early formative days of when Trinidad was young, and brings the Afro-French Creole cultural traditions to life in this gripping tale of the triumph of good over evil. This novella weaves a story around several generations of beautiful Caribbean women, who in their devotion to the goddess of love must contend with, and eventually destroy, the evil forces of the great deceiver. Follow their adventures in the wake of wars, revolutions, and changing fortunes. See how they find love, and in exploring their own femininity,...
Historian and folklorist Gerard Besson takes you back in time to the early formative days of when Trinidad was young, and brings the Afro-French Creol...
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158,45 zł |
The Voice in the Govi (Softcover)
ISBN: 9789768054876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Historian and folklorist Gerard Besson takes you back in time to the early formative days of when Trinidad was young, and brings the Afro-French Creole cultural traditions to life in this gripping tale of the triumph of good over evil. This novella weaves a story around several generations of beautiful Caribbean women, who in their devotion to the goddess of love must contend with, and eventually destroy, the evil forces of the great deceiver. Follow their adventures in the wake of wars, revolutions, and changing fortunes. See how they find love, and in exploring their own femininity,...
Historian and folklorist Gerard Besson takes you back in time to the early formative days of when Trinidad was young, and brings the Afro-French Creol...
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97,59 zł |
From the Gates of Aksum (softcover)
ISBN: 9789768054975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From the Gates of Aksum weaves Freemasonry and European religious and political intrigue into the tapestry of Caribbean and South American political history. The book begins in late 18th century Port-d'Espagne, Trinidad, and is told by several narrators. The story spans centuries, from a time when a company of adventurers recovers a mysterious object of an antediluvian science from the secluded kingdom of Aksum in the Ethiopian highlands, on to the first anguished years of the 19th century. In the riotous wake of the American, French and Haitian Revolutions, the collapse of the Spanish empire...
From the Gates of Aksum weaves Freemasonry and European religious and political intrigue into the tapestry of Caribbean and South American political h...
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202,36 zł |
The Cult of the Will
ISBN: 9789768054821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This study deals with the complex issues of race, history and politics in Caribbean society. In its first part, "Francois Besson," it examines the fortunes of a French creole family between the mid-18th and early 20th centuries, and describes their experiences against the backdrop of the social and political conflicts occasioned by the excesses of plantation slavery and the upheavals of the French revolution. It looks at Julien Fedon's revolution of 1795 in Grenada, examines the nature of the relationship between master and slave, the children of these unions, and the deadly divisions that...
This study deals with the complex issues of race, history and politics in Caribbean society. In its first part, "Francois Besson," it examines the for...
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310,59 zł |
Roume de Saint Laurent ... A Memoir
ISBN: 9789768244215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A life .... a Caribbean life ... a life of a distinct Franco-Caribbean identity against the backdrop of the all-consuming French Revolution ... a life patchily documented in history ... a life seen through the eyes of the mistress, the wife .... a life of changing shape, of the shape-changer ... a life of political intrigue, of brutal slaughter, of exploration and love ... a life of a Caribbean adventurer, Philippe Rose Roume de St. Laurent. In this book, Besson continues his exploration of the French presence in the Caribbean in the 18th and early 19th century and of the formation of a...
A life .... a Caribbean life ... a life of a distinct Franco-Caribbean identity against the backdrop of the all-consuming French Revolution ... a life...
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202,36 zł |
The Book of Trinidad (HARDCOVER)
ISBN: 9789768054364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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280,16 zł |