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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Charles Rivers The Earp Brothers
"The Earp Brothers" weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created...
Engels | 2 uur 46 minuten (123 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Karin van der Wolf Titia Bergsma
Friese charme betovert Japanners
In woord en beeld wordt verteld over Titia Bergsma (1786-1821) die kortstondig op het kunstmatige eilandje Deshima bij Nagasaki in Japan verbleef en over de indruk die zij op de Japanners maakte.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 69 pagina's | Wizbone, [West-Terschelling] | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Donna C. Mehos Science and culture for members only
the Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century
Studie, enerzijds naar de belangrijke rol die Artis speelde in het culturele en sociale leven van Amsterdam in de 19e eeuw, anderzijds naar de rol van de wetenschap in de ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse culturele identiteit in een periode van natievorming en koloniale expansiedrift.
Non-fictie
Engels | 208 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2006
Gedrukt boek
Ruben Schalk Splitting the bill
matching schooling to Dutch labour markets 1750-1920
Onderzoek naar het aanpassen van scholing aan de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkten, 1750-1920.
Non-fictie
Engels | 220 pagina's | Boom, [Amsterdam] | 2015
Gedrukt boek
Christopher De Bellaigue The Islamic enlightenment
the modern struggle between faith and reason
Aan de hand van portretten en levensbeschrijvingen van bekende en minder bekende personen in voonamelijk Caïro, Istanbul en Teheran wordt de islamitische verlichting beschreven, waarvan met name sprake was tussen 1798 en de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | 404 pagina's | Vintage, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Joost Willink The fateful journey
the expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864); a study of their travel accounts and ethnographic collections
Bold, headstrong, and fabulously wealthy, Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1834–1869) made several excursions into the African interior, often accompanied by her mother, at a time when very few European women traveled. This book follows her trip with German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin, which took them through Egypt and Sudan in search of adventure and unknown regions in Central Africa.. Drawing upon four years of research in the Tinne archives, and including never before published correspondence,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 455 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, [Amsterdam] | 2011
Gedrukt boek