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The Book Cover Archive "Decorated Publishers Bindings-Grand Valley State University Archives and Special Collections". Archived from the original on 2013-01-06. – containing photographs of decorated publisher bindings from the 1870s to 1930. Historical book cover design gallery (archived 10 January 2007)
Eighty Years of Book Cover Design is a 2009 book by Joseph Connolly published by Faber and Faber. It illustrates the distinctive cover designs used by Faber over the ...
'Explorers in Africa: To the Sources of the Nile') is a 1991 illustrated monograph on the European exploration of Africa. Written by the French Africanist and historian Anne Hugon , and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 117th volume in their " Découvertes " collection [ 1 ] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United ...
Some poems are illustrated with woodcuts, also used on the covers. The most common stanzas are those of ten, eight or six verses. The most common stanzas are those of ten, eight or six verses. The authors, or cordelistas , recite these verses in a melodious and cadenced way, accompanied by a musical instrument named viola .
[6] North Africa has been conceptually "Orientalized" and separated from sub-Saharan Africa. [6] While its historic development has occurred within a longer time frame, the epistemic development (e.g., form, content) of the present-day racialized conceptual separation of Africa came as a result of the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for ...
Lewis Nkosi (cf. Cullhed, 2006: 18) claims that "in South Africa there exists an unhealed—I will not say incurable—split between black and white writing". This split occurs because, Nkosi claims, black writers are "largely impervious for the most part to cultural movements which have exercised great influence in the development of white ...
The novel is set in South Africa, home to five distinct populations: Bantu (native Black tribes), Coloured (the result of generations of racial mixture between persons of European descent and the indigenous occupants of South Africa along with slaves brought in from Angola, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and the east Coast of Africa), British, Afrikaner, and Indian, Chinese, and other foreign ...
The geology of South Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts. The geology of the country is the base for a large mining sector that extracts gold , diamonds, iron and coal from world-class deposits.