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…

Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of aeCommunitasAE. He characterises it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. Turner…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s 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 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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