Undercurrents of Power
Undercurrents of Power

Author: Kevin Dawson

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0812224930

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.

The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938
The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938

Author: Maud Gonne

Publisher: Random House (UK)

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When he was 21 years old, W.B. Yeats fell in love with a young Irish actress, Maud Gonne. Despite her refusal to marry him, he continued to write poems that ensure her lasting fame. The majority of his letters to Gonne were destroyed by the British when they ransacked her Dublin home, but those that remain show how deeply distressed he was when she married John MacBride. Yet he celebrated her beauty, shared her devotion to the Irish cause, interested her in mysticism, shared visions with her and entered into a spiritual marriage with her. Her own letters reveal her tempestuous private life involving a love affair with Lucien Millevoye, a French politician and journalist and father of their two children.