LIBROS DEL AUTOR: murray steele

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  • Stages On A Long Journey
    Murray Steele
    This collection of poems follows up on my first, Falling Leaves, published in 2017. It is set out in five sections. ’Seasons’ is a sequence of nature poems running through the year. ’Places’ refer to locations where I have lived: Africa, Liverpool and Greece. The final three sections cover a variety of topics, including environmental and political issues in the modern world. ...
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  • Falling Leaves
    Murray Steele
    This collection of poems was inspired by the early death of our son Alasdair in Athens last October. It is in four sections. The first consists of poems about the late autumn to winter season, some echoing our loss. This is followed by a section titled ’Africa’, based on my experiences growing up there, and my continuing commitment to its cause. ’Protest’ reflects on environm...
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    6,54 €

  • Maronda Mashanu
    Murray Steele
    The Maronda Mashona (Five Wounds of Christ) community was set up in colonial Zimbabwe just over a century ago by the missionary, poet, redoubtable champion of African rights and fierce critic of imperialist oppression, Rev Arthur Shearly Cripps. This book describes the evolution of the community from its beginnings as a mission sanctuary for black people who had been deprived o...
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    9,51 €

  • Memories of a Zambezian Past
    Murray Steele
    A retired historian of Africa looks back over the early part of his life, spent in a continent undergoing rapid change as it moved towards independence after the Second World War. These very personal memories of ’Zambezia’ - present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe - capture something of the spirit of this now vanished period in our colonial history, as well as conveying some of magic ...
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    13,83 €

  • A Good Day out
    Murray Steele
    Victorian England celebrated its industrial and artistic progress in a series of large exhibitions, starting with the famous Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, opened by Queen Victoria, and ending in four major shows staged in Northern locations during the Golden Jubilee year of 1887.This book traces the evolution of these massive enterprises throughout a period of rapid social...
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    10,26 €

  • My Name Is Maude
    Katharine Murray Steele
    Katharine Murray Steele long felt compelled to tell the story of her mother, who took her first teaching position in 1924 in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Katharine went to Rebel's Creek, photographed the mountains and the little house where Maude stayed. To make this story authentic, she interviewed local historians and studied the ways and times of dai...
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    43,46 €