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The mighty British government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonized and colonizer alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there have been transformed irrevocably by the uprising. Kihika, legendary rebel leader, was fatally betrayed to the whiteman. Gikonyos marriage to beautiful Mumbi was destroyed when he was imprisoned, while her life has been shattered in other ways. And Mugo. brave survivor of the camps and now the village hero, harbours a terrible secret.
As we learn of their tangled histories, a mastery story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal unfolds, comfirming Ngũgĩs status as a giant african writing. 

Forfattere: Ngugi wa Thiong´o
Publisert måned: Feb
Publisert år: 2002
Sider nr: 242

Den polske journalisten Ryszard Kapuscinski er blant verdens mest kjente "reiseforfattere". Han har reist verden rundt og rapportert fra kriger, kupp og revolusjoner i Asia, Europa, samt Sør- og Mellom-Amerika, noe som har resultert I flere spennende og viktige romaner. Det sies at da han endelig vendte hjem til polen hadde han overlevd 27 revolusjoner og kupp, blitt fengslet 4 ganger og overlevd 4 dødsdommer. Litt av en mann, med andre ord, og litt av en forfatter.

 

• Forfattere: R. Kapuscinski
• Publisert: Sep. 2001
• Utgave: 11. utgave
• Antall sider: 149

Forfattere: T. De quincey
Publisert måned: Des
Publisert år: 2009
Utgave: 1utg
Sider nr:119

Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.

Forfattere: R. O'hanlon
Publisert måned: 2.utg
Publisert år: 1996
Sider nr: 472

This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all the buildings and treasures of the city.

ISBN: 9780140166446

Forfattere: C. Hibbert
Publisert måned: Okt
Publisert år: 1994
Sider nr: 398

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A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the beat generation, Jack Kerouac's lonesome traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery. As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of North-West America; meditating on a sunlit roof in tangiers; or falling in love with montmartre and the huge white basilica of sacre-coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment. 'full of startling and beautiful things ...

One sees, hears and feels' sunday times

• Forfattere: Jack Kerouac
• Publisert: 1960
• Antall sider: 160

Forfattere: Eileen chang
Publisert måned: Jan
Publisert år: 2007
Utgave: 1utg
Sider nr:170

Paul theroux er blant verdens best kjente forfattere av reiseskildringer. Han ble født I 1941 I usa, men siden den gang har han arbeidet som lærer, journalist og forfatter I italia, malawi, uganda, singapore, england og hawaii. Han har skrevet bøker med handling fra omtrent hele verden - europa, asia, afrika, sør-amerika... For boken mosquito coast vant han blant annet james tait black award. Den samme boken ble også filmatisert, med harrison ford I hovedrollen. En fantastisk mann som har levd et fantastisk liv og som skriver om opplevelsene og erfaringene sine på en fantastisk måte. Anbefales!

forfattere: Paul theroux
Publisert måned: Nov
Publisert år: 2008
Utgave: 5.utg
Sider nr: 487

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital.

• Forfattere: Bernal Diaz
• Publisert: Desember 2009
• Utgave: 10. utgave
• Antall sider: 416

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer who had 'foreseen the single life' for herself, to her marriage at thirty-eight and death less than a year later. The resulting work - the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist - explored the nature of Charlotte's genius and almost single-handedly created the Bronte myth.

Forfattere: E. Gaskell
Publisert måned: Jun
Publisert år: 1997
Utgave: 5.utg
Sider nr: 494

'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind.

The results of this casually taken decision are both tragic and compelling.

Forfattere: Paul Bowles
Publisert måned: Des
Publisert år: 2009
Sider nr: 342

In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of the American people. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, Steinbeck observed - with remarkable honesty, insight and a humorous eye - the gamut of America and the people who inhabited it.

• Forfatter: John Steinbeck
• Publisert: Mars 2001
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780141186108