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  • INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN LONDON (1905-1910)
    Adam Yamey
    This illustrated book explores an almost forgotten episode in the history of India’s struggle to become independent, freed from being part of the British Empire. The events described in it took place largely in London between 1905 and 1910. They were centred on India House, a Victorian mansion in Highgate, a suburb of London, and were orchestrated by Shyamji Krishnavarma, Vinay...
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    11,30 €

  • IDEAS, BOMBS, and BULLETS
    Adam Yamey
    *This is a true tale of bombs, guns, lawyers, patriots, philosophers, revolutionaries, and scholars. It concerns a little known part of the history of India?s long struggle for independence. *A large Victorian house stands in a residential street in the north London suburb of Highgate. Between 1905 and 1910, it was known as ?India House?, and was a meeting place and hostel for ...
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    10,26 €

  • TRAVELS THROUGH GUJARAT, DAMAN, AND DIU
    Adam Yamey
    DISCOVER GUJARAT, DAMAN, and DIUAlmost wherever you live, you are bound to have met members of the Gujarati diaspora. Yet, Gujarat in western India, where they originated, is hardly known or visited by foreign and Indian tourists.Adam Yamey?s richly illustrated book describes his travels through Gujarat and two former Portuguese colonies, Daman, and Diu, with his wife. Her know...
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    16,17 €

  • BORN IN BRESLAU
    Adam YAMEY
    A book concerned with challenges faced by Jews in early 19th century Prussia. Until Hitler’s rise to power, Breslau (now Wrocław) had one of the largest Jewish communities in Germany. In 1814, the author’s ancestor Nathan Ginsberg was born in the city when Reform Judaism was in its ascendancy. In this book, his education is described in detail to illustrate the difficulties and...
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    11,65 €

  • Rediscovering Albania
    Adam Yamey
    Adam YameyÕs informative travelogue offers a new and interesting look at Albania: its valiant people, its intriguing history, its wonderful landscapes, and its myriad attractions. The author, who first visited the country in 1984 when it was ruled by a Stalinist dictatorship, rediscovers Albania now that it has become a democracy.Profusely illustrated, Rediscovering Albania in...
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    15,07 €

  • Soap to Senate
    Adam YAMEY
    **A new insight into the genesis of apartheid** Franz Ginsberg left Germany in 1880. He settled in South Africa as an 18-year-old photographer, escaping the restrictions on Jews, only to adopt a homeland with escalating restrictions on ’black’ and other non-European people. Franz flourished as a manufacturer of a large variety of domestic products, becoming well-known as an i...
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    44,17 €

  • Exodus To Africa
    Adam Yamey
    From Mosenthal to Mandela ... ... a FRESH look at the story of the Jews in South Africa . Jewish migration to South Africa began as a trickle at the beginning of the 19th century and became an exodus by its end.Always a minority in the European population of what eventually became South Africa, the Jews who emigrated there from Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries have pl...
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    16,75 €

  • FROM ALBANIA TO SICILY
    Adam Yamey
    Albanian communities have been in existence in Sicily for over 500 years.Albanians have been living in Sicily since the 15th century. They have preserved their language and and traditions that pre-date the arrival of the Ottomans in the Balkans. This volume is about the descendants of the Albanians who left their Balkan homelands when they were invaded by the Ottoman Turks in ...
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    21,76 €

  • Between Olympus and Aegean
    Adam Yamey
    Ants, bacon, collagen, and chlorine. These are not the first words that usually spring to mind when thinking about summers in Greece. The holidays that Adam Yamey spent in this country in the 1970s and 1980s with the professor and his wife were far from ordinary. This book provides an affectionate portrait of two remarkable people with whom the author spent many unconventional ...
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    17,23 €

  • Charlie Chaplin Waved to Me
    Adam Yamey
    ONLY read this book if nostalgia and fascinating tales of travel appeal to you.Adam Yamey’s coming-of-age stories are set in three continents during the 1950s, 60s and ’70s. They explore a wide selection of topics ranging from St John the Baptist’s index finger to John F Kennedy’s untimely death, from Archimedes bath to Pearl Harbor, from Mozart to Mussolini, and much more. The...
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    13,32 €

  • ALBANIA ON MY MIND
    Adam Yamey
    The people of Albania achieved independence in 1912, having endured several centuries of Ottoman domination. After the First World War, they lived under a series of dictatorships beginning with that of King Zog. He was followed by Mussolini, and then by Hitler. They were ’liberated’ by the Communist partisans at the end of the Second World War, only to be subjected to yet anoth...
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    7,45 €

  • SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ - Once upon a time in Yugoslavia
    Adam Yamey
    Adam Yamey visited Yugoslavia frequently over a period of more than 20 years. He criss-crossed the country from north to south and east to west. During his travels,he stood in the footsteps of Archduke Ferdinand’s assassin in Sarajevo and those of Emperor Diocletian in Split, ate Chinese food in Novi Sad and offal at Rtanj, and also played Scrabble with Yugoslavs all over Serbi...
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    17,61 €

  • Rogue of Rouxville
    Adam Yamey
    Jakob Klein, who is desperately trying to earn enough to look after his young family, gets into bad trouble with the law and is thrown into jail, awaiting trial by the highest court in the land. His family have been forced to flee from their home in Rouxville, leaving him to an uncertain fate.Set in the wilds of southern Africa in the 1870s, this adventure is inspired by realit...
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    17,69 €

  • Aliwal
    Adam Yamey
    Henry Bergmann (c1830-1866) was the earliest of my blood relatives to reach what is now South Africa, and one of the first Jews to settle there. He arrived in Cape Town in 1849, having set out from his birthplace in revolution-torn Bavaria several months earlier.Despite becoming very successful as a merchant in the frontier town of Aliwal North and his happy marriage to Jenny, ...
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    18,03 €