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Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins & History [Hardback]
Jeremiah M. Kitunda(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012807
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Volume: 52
Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source for the reconstruction of the manners, character... .... Learn More -
The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland [Paperback]
Ernest Walker Marwick(Author); Ernest Marwick(Author)
$18.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781912476923
Published by : Origin
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the ‘simmer din’.
Ori... .... Learn More -
Eroi in fiamme: Makuch e gli altri che sfidarono l’Urss [Paperback]
Dario Fertilio(Author); Olena Ponomareva(Author)
$24.00ISBN: 9788856404555
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: VS | Verità Scomode
Volume: 4
Between 1968, a year marked by the invasion of Prague, and the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, some solitary heroes dared to challenge the “red giant” by resorting to the most extreme gesture: the immolation of themselves through fi... .... Learn More -
I grani, i pani e i popoli: Le antiche varietà di frumento, le «biade», le «piante esotiche» descritte da Saverio Manetti (1765) con le annotazioni autografe dell’autore [Paperback]
Lucia Bigliazzi(Author); Luciana Bigliazzi(Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9788859621362
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Saverio Manetti (1723-1784), who was one of the founders of the Georgofili Academy, published in 1765 the treatise On the different species of wheat and bread as of bread making (...), divided into ten articles, with the purpose of solving ... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 27 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140615
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the Goethezeit. Volume 27 features the yearbook's first F... .... Learn More -
Carteggio Luigi Guglielmo Cambray Digny - Virginia Tolomei Biffi: II (1858-1860) [Paperback]
Loredana Nuzzolese(Editor)
$38.00ISBN: 9788859620709
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Centro Studi sulla Civiltà toscana fra ’800 e ’900 | Fondazione Spadolini Nuova Antologia
Volume: 79
Text in Italian.
Second tome of the massive correspondence between Luigi Guglielmo Cambray-Digny, one of the lead characters of the Italian pre-unification political events, and his wife Virginia Tolomei Biffi, daughter of the rich landow... .... Learn More -
Stories from South Uist [Paperback]
Angus MacLellan(Author); J.L. Campbell(Translator)
$14.95ISBN: 9781912476756
Published by : Origin
This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale fo... .... Learn More -
Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers: Anthology of Scotland's Gaelic Verse to 1600 [Paperback]
Wilson McLeod(Editor); Meg Bateman(Translator)
$40.95ISBN: 9781912476787
Published by : Origin
Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fen... .... Learn More -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: The Definitive Original Text Edition [Paperback]
P.J.C. Field(Editor)
$25.95ISBN: 9781843844600
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2014, the two-volume scholarly edition of the Morte Darthur examined the two surviving versions of the text: Caxton's edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have existed ar... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 26 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor); Bryan Klausmeyer(Contributor); Christian P. Weber(Contributor); Christopher Chiasson(Contributor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140493
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goet... .... Learn More
