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Barefoot Through Mauretania

Author: Odette Du Puigaudeau

Publisher: Hardinge Simpole Limited

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781843822011

Odette du Puigaudeau is best known for her major ethnographic work, Arts et Coutumes des Maures, a detailed study, in words and drawings, of the cultural world of the nomads of Mauretania. The present work explains how she came to write it. Barefoot Through Mauretania is an account of her first journey across the country by camel in 1933-4, with her life-long companion, Marion Senones. The book records the adventures of the two women during that year, often with a touch of humour. Above all, however, it presents a picture of a way of life that has, as they feared, almost vanished, and their determination that it should be recorded. Odette du Puigaudeau wrote a number of other books on different aspects of nomad life, such as the salt caravans and date markets, as well as articles on prehistoric rock-drawings, and a charming tribute to her pet leopard, Rachid."

Invasion of the Sea

Author: Jules Verne

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2007-03-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0819574600

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First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns — environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.

Memorials of Acadia College and Horton Academy for the Half-century 1828-1878

Author: Acadia University

Publisher:

Published: 1881

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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The Question of a Harbour of Refuge on the Canada Coast of Lake Huron

Author: Inverhuron Harbour Committee

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781018619545

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Ex-foliations

Author: Terry Harpold

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0816651019

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Terry Harpold offers a sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age.

Jules Verne

Author: William Butcher

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2007-04-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781560259046

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Highly readable narrative of a writing phenomenon. The world's most translated best-selling writer.

Consuming Youth

Author: Robert Latham

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0226467023

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From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired images symbolize the forms of labor and leisure that American society has staked out for contemporary youth. A startling look at youth in our time, Consuming Youth will interest anyone concerned with film, television, and popular culture.

Journey Through the Impossible

Author: Jules Verne

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2010-04-06

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1615923780

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This is the first complete edition and the first English translation of a surprising work by a popular French novelist whose work continues to delight readers to this day.