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  • Molasba in Mombasa and The Library Stalker
    Robert Gurney
    Molasba in Mombasa is about a body found on a golf course. Have you ever been to one? Do you love or hate the game? To some it is a joyous place to test ability against self and others, or destroy belief that you have mastered the skills required to play well. Inspector Molasba does not appreciate the time people spend on a golf course but has to waste a week of his life solvi...
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    14,47 €

  • Bat Valley and Other Strange African Animal Stories
    Robert Gurney
    The object of desire at the heart of ‘The Jaguar Men of Kiziba’ is the last King of Rwanda’s Jaguar Mk5 coupé. Based on a true story, it includes Princess Margaret’s state visit to Uganda. The main character’s weakness, envy, leads to a dramatic ending. ‘The Lungfish Man of Mbazi’ has a relatively happy dénouement. It involves a research programme at Bat Valley linked to space ...
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    8,48 €

  • Absurd Tales from Africa
    Robert Gurney
    In his book A Night in Buganda, Tales from Post-Colonial Africa (2014), consisting of one hundred and forty-four tales, the author struggled to make sense of the years he spent in Uganda in the nineteen-sixties. Democracy in that newly independent country was moving inexorably towards dictatorship. You could feel it happening. He and his fellow aid workers were told they were d...
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    8,51 €

  • EL ACANTILADO Y OTROS POEMAS
    Robert Edward Gurney
    This small book by Robert Edward Gurney, consisting of twelve poems, is a tribute to the memory of the writer Dylan Thomas. Turning its pages, you will find the man, the poet and his context: places, people, objects. The author's vision, which provides the reader with a way of seeing that revisits everything, offers a new prism that reveals new forms, new colours, new words...
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    6,48 €

  • Dylan's Gower
    Robert Edward Gurney
    Dylan Thomas' life: idealism, turbulence, the absurd. In this tribute to Dylan, his life on the Gower Peninsula in Wales is imagined here poetically in the movement of a wave, the build-up, the swell, the rise, the disintegration, the spindrift, the crashing down. Then the relief, the calm before the next wave begins to form. Poems that start with poetic intensity, move toward...
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    10,54 €

  • Counterfeit Portrait Eight-Reales
    Robert Gurney
    The portrait style Spanish-American eight-reales was one of the most well known, and extensively circulated silver trade coins that the world has ever seen. Produced in Spain's new world colonies from 1772 to 1825, the coin made Spain a major player on the world financial stage in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This was due in large measure to the fact this c...
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    137,69 €

  • To Dylan
    Robert Edward Gurney
    This book of original poems is a tribute to Dylan Thomas on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1914. It follows Dylan around Gower, in Port Eynon, Horton, Three Cliffs Bay, Rhossili, Reynoldston, Llangennith and on Cefn Bryn but also outside Gower, in Swansea, Oystermouth, Gorseinon, Laugharne and London. The author first visited Gower in South Wales...
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    12,95 €

  • Religion and Poetry
    Archer Thompson Gurney / Robert Montgomery
    Religion and Poetry presents a curated selection from the poetical works of Robert Montgomery, a figure who enjoyed considerable popularity and notoriety in the 19th century. This volume features an introductory essay by Archer Thompson Gurney, offering critical insights into Montgomery’s work and its reception. Montgomery’s poems, often exploring themes of faith, morality, and...
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    26,98 €

  • The Manuscripts Of The Duke Of Beauford, The Earl Of Donoughmore And Others
    And Others / John Henry Gurney / Robert William Ketton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    44,48 €