Bridge Over Blood River

Author : Kajsa Norman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849048552

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Bridge Over Blood River by Kajsa Norman Pdf

Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, and its history, over a series of December 16ths, from the Battle of Blood River in 1838 to its commemoration in 2011. Weaving between the past and the present, the book highlights how years of fear, nationalism, and social engineering have left the modern Afrikaner struggling for identity and relevance. Norman spends time with residents of the breakaway republic of Orania, where a thousand Afrikaners are working to construct a white-African utopia. Citing their desire to preserve their language and traditions, they have sequestered themselves in an isolated part of the arid Karoo region. Here, they can still dictate the rules and create a homeland with its own flag, currency and ideology. For a Europe that faces growing nationalism, their story is more relevant than ever. How do people react when they believe their cultural identity is under threat? Bridge Over Blood River's haunting and subversive evocation of South Africa's racial politics provides some unsettling answers.

Author : Kajsa Norman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849048545

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Bridge Over Blood River by Kajsa Norman Pdf

Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, and its history, over a series of December 16ths, from the Battle of Blood River in 1838 to its commemoration in 2011. Weaving between the past and the present, the book highlights how years of fear, nationalism, and social engineering have left the modern Afrikaner struggling for identity and relevance. Norman spends time with residents of the breakaway republic of Orania, where a thousand Afrikaners are working to construct a white-African utopia. Citing their desire to preserve their language and traditions, they have sequestered themselves in an isolated part of the arid Karoo region. Here, they can still dictate the rules and create a homeland with its own flag, currency and ideology. For a Europe that faces growing nationalism, their story is more relevant than ever. How do people react when they believe their cultural identity is under threat? Bridge Over Blood River's haunting and subversive evocation of South Africa's racial politics provides some unsettling answers.

Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Gold Eagle
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373610580

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Ambush on Blood River by Don Pendleton Pdf

In a hunt for the secrets of hell, Bolan joins Phoenix Force to crash the Congo.

Author : Kajsa Norman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787381773

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Sweden's Dark Soul by Kajsa Norman Pdf

Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation. Sweden's elites shirked responsibility and rushed to discredit him. Although Sweden boasts the world's oldest free press, its history of homogeneity and social engineering has created a culture where few dare dissent from consensus, those who do are driven to extremes, and there is no place for outsiders--even those who conform. In this groundbreaking book, investigative journalist Kajsa Norman turns her fearless gaze on the oppressive forces at the heart of Sweden's 'model democracy'. Weaving the history of its social politics with the stories of Frick and other outcasts, Norman exposes the darkness in the Swedish soul.

Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : Tyndale House Pub
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781414368184

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Bridge to Haven by Francine Rivers Pdf

Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.

Author : Kevin Loring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015080820023

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Where the Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring Pdf

Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author's First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations. But what is the greater story, what lies untold beneath Floyd's alcoholism, under the pain and isolation of the play's main character? Loring's title was inspired by the mistranslation of the N'lakap'mux (Thompson) place name Kumsheen. For years, it was believed to mean "the place where the rivers meet"--the confluence of the muddy Fraser and the brilliant blue Thompson Rivers. A more accurate translation is: "the place inside the heart where the blood mixes." But Kumsheen also refers to a story: Coyote was disemboweled there, along a great cliff in an epic battle with a giant shape-shifting being that could transform the world with its powers--to this day his intestines can still be seen strewn along the granite walls. In his rage the transformer tore Coyote apart and scattered his body across the nation, his heart landing in the place where the rivers meet. Floyd is a man who has lost everyone he holds most dear. Now after more than two decades, his daughter Christine returns home to confront her father. Set during the salmon run, Where the Blood Mixes takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People. In 2009 Where the Blood Mixes won the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script; the Sydney J. Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright; and most recently the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.

Author : John Noble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3TDF

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History, Productions, and Resources of the Cape of Good Hope by John Noble Pdf

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307790460

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That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. Eckert Pdf

An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.

Author : Robert Scott
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780786030934

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Rivers of Blood by Robert Scott Pdf

It Took One Week To Kill Her. . . Restaurant manager Lisa Kimmell had been driving for hours to visit her family in Montana. She never arrived. Eight days later, her body was found floating in the North Platte River. . . .And Fifteen Years To Catch Him. The police knew Lisa had been tortured and raped for a week before she was finally murdered. But they had no suspects, no witnesses, no clues. Just a strange handwritten letter left on her gravestone. . . But The Pain Would Last Forever. . . Lisa's murder was never solved--and her car never found--until new DNA technology led police to Dale Wayne Eaton. Fifteen years had passed since Eaton kidnapped his unlucky victim at a Wyoming rest stop. But now police had forensic evidence, handwriting samples, and most incredibly: Lisa's car buried in the killer's yard. Eaton's capture shed horrifying new light on a series of unsolved disappearances. Were they the work of a serial killer? Dale Wayne Eaton's trial revealed a twisted loner driven by dark appetites--a monster without remorse. With 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11799805

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Tinti,Tuesday Reitano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190668594

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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior by Peter Tinti,Tuesday Reitano Pdf

When states, charities, and NGOs either ignore or are overwhelmed by movement of people on a vast scale, criminal networks step into the breach. This book explains what happens next.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112119376132

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Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112042398930 and Others by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Lawson
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440336372

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The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson Pdf

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful and set to inherit the farm and his father’s character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know – the family misfit. When a beautiful young woman comes into the community, the fragile balance of sibling rivalry tips over the edge. Then there is Ian, the family’s next generation, and far too sure he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the fifties, and the world has changed—a little, but not enough. These two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men—its unimaginable horror reaching right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. With her astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, Lawson builds their story to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising us with moments of tenderness and humour, The Other Side of the Bridge is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754082445903

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Report of the Secretary of War; Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : Peter Keim
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461069521

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Reckoning on Blood River by Peter Keim Pdf

Unwittingly left behind when kidnappers sell his two brothers and twin sister into slavery, youngster TA Buck is comforted by a mysterious Indian who sweeps him up to disappear in the mountains to teach the boy the necessities for survival in the untamed Pacific Northwest. Six years later TA emerges from the mountains a grown man with great skills, an unusual dog and horse - and a venomous drive to find and save his siblings from the grasp of an unrelenting and ruthless enemy.