Search Results: HISTORY EUROPE from Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA

An African in Greenland - KPOMASSIE, TETE-MICHEL, KIRKUP, JAMES, ALVAREZ, A. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc

An African in Greenland by Tele-Michel Kpomassie, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers (1983), English Translation Edition, Translated from original French by James Kirkup, Preface by Jean Malaurie, ISBN 0151055890, 298 pages, about 5-3/4 x 8-1/4 x 1-1/8 inches...Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland & knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed & superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all... Hardcover book in Good condition, some slight wear to corners, pages have small amount of dust stains on edges, otherwise clean, crisp, unmarked except to ink stamp on upper page edges, dust… Read More

*America and the Image of Europe-Daniel J. Boorstin- very good condition with some discoloration due to age.first printing February 1960 No writing-tears- STAINING PAGE EDGE / tanning-sm fold-some chipping– creases not bad for a 55-year-old book-Edgeware –no nasty stickers/to ruin covers/--- America and the Image of Europe Mass Market Paperback – 1960-series of essays challenging assumptions in our thinking about ourselves/national past offering begins discussion of thoughts and distortions of images of ourselves preventing us from appreciating the uniqueness of the American experience-author explores lines of vigorous individual professional the story on not sparing contemporary prejudice searching to define the authentic & indigenous –America thought– by Daniel J.Boorstin-Author- cover design by Elaine Lustig Daniel Joseph Boorstin-historian- professor- attorney & writer-Pulitzer Prize winner He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987. - Ruth… Read More