Wonders of the African World - Rilegato

Gates, Henry Louis

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ISBN 10: 0375402357 ISBN 13: 9780375402357

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

The companion volume to the PBS-television series offers a lavishly illustrated journey throught the history and contributions of Africa's lost civilizations, from the ancient pyramids of Nubia to the ruins of Ethiopia's Christian kingdom to the great library and university of Timbuktu. TV tie-in. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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"In a fascinating, personal account, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., shows us the glories of Africa and explains why African-Americans have for so long been both fascinated and repelled by the great continent."

-- Marion Wright Edelman

"This is more than a book about Africa. It is a study in black America's profound ambivalence about our shared ancestral continent. Caught between a distaste for Africa within his own family and his abiding love for and fascination with Africa, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traverses the continent with a keen eye, a brilliat mind, and an ambivalent heart."

-- Ali Mazrui, State University of New York at Binghampton

"From Ethiopia to Nubia, from Swahili country to West Africa, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., takes us on a fascinating journey, teaching us about the great civilizations we do not know well enough and making us reconsider the Africa we thought we already understood."

-- Reverend Jesse Jackson
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities and the chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. The author of seven previous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir Colored People, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.

Lynn Davis has won international acclaim for her photographs of sacred sights and landscapes all over the world. She has had thirty-two one-person exhibitions and is repre

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375402357
• ISBN 13: 9780375402357
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 275