This book illuminates a vast and ancient oral tradition across the sub-Saharan continent. Roger Abrahams has drawn on sources that range from the notes of the earliest missionaries to the…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

Miriam is a survivor of the Holocaust. She flees Warsaw and joins the Jewish Partisans. At war’s end, Miriam escapes to Palestine, where she meets Cobi. Cobi is a native-born…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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A gripping account of Abraham Lincoln's childhood, based on the oral history of Austin Gollaher, a childhood friend of Lincoln, with rare photographs.

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