Dreaming The Karoo: A People Called Xam Julia Blackburn Jonathan Cape Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

A Spellbinding New Book By The Much-Acclaimed Writer Journey To South Africa In Search Of Lost People Called Xam - Haunting About Brutality Colonial Frontiers And Fate Those They Dispossess Spring 2020 Julia Blackburn Travelled Karoo Region See For Herself Ancestral Lands That Had Once Belonged An Indigenous Group Throughout Nineteenth Century Were Persecuted Denied Right Live Their Own Territories 1870S Facing Cultural Extinction Several Individuals Agreed Teach Intricate Language German Philologist His Indomitable English Sister-In-Law Result Was Bleek-Lloyd Archive: 60 000 Notebook Pages Which Dreams Memories Beliefs Alongside Traumas More Recent History Meticulously Recorded Word It Is Extraordinary Document Gives Voice Way Living World We Have All But \ Things People\ Said Blackburn\ S Cut Short Outbreak Global Pandemic She Gathered Enough From Reading Archive Seeing Talking Anyone Everyone Met Along Be Able Write This Powerful While Her Precarious Lockdown Life Dreaming Masterpiece One Our Greatest Most Original Non-Fiction Writers Astounding Disarming Full Grief Beauty\ Olivia Laing\ Wise Wonderfully Idiosyncratic Books Are Poetic Informed Genius Serendipity\ Lucy Hughes-Hallett Statesman Σελίδες: 304 Διαστάσεις: 16 2X16 2Cm