The Caliban Shore

Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571295678

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The Caliban Shore by Stephen Taylor Pdf

The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the castaways were hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost - and utterly ignorant of their surroundings and the people among whom they found themselves. Stephen Taylor pieces together this extraordinary saga with tremendous narrative flair. Drawing upon much new research, he sifts the myths that became attached to the 'Grosvenor' from a reality that is no less gripping. Taking the reader to the heart of what is now the Wild Coast of Pondoland, The Caliban Shore reveals the misunderstandings that led to tragedy, tells the story of those who escaped and unravels the mystery of those who stayed.

Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393346039

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Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors by Stephen Taylor Pdf

"This incredible true story reads like the wildest fiction."—Booklist In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast Africa. Astonishingly, most of those on board reached the shore safely—91 members of the crew and 34 wealthy, high-born passengers, including women and children. They were hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost—and they were not alone. "They surveyed one another with mutual incomprehension: on the one hand the dishevelled castaways; on the other, black warriors with high conical hairstyles, daubed with red mud..." Drawing upon unpublished material and new research, Stephen Taylor pieces together the strands of this compelling saga, sifting the myths from a reality that is no less gripping. Full of unexpected twists, Caliban's Shore takes the reader to the heart of what is now South Africa, to analyze the misunderstandings that led to tragedy, to tell the story of those who returned, and to unravel the mystery of those who stayed.

Author : Jeanne Safer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780743234160

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The Normal One by Jeanne Safer Pdf

In the first book of its kind, renowned psychotherapist Jeanne Safer examines the hidden trauma of growing up with an emotionally troubled or physically disabled sibling, and helps adult "normal" siblings resolve their childhood pain. For too long the therapeutic community has focused on the parent-child relationship as the primary relationship in a child's life. In The Normal One, Dr. Safer shows that sisters and brothers are just as important as parents, and she illuminates for the first time the experience of being "the normal one." Drawing on more than sixty interviews with normal, or intact, siblings, Safer explores the daunting challenges they face, and probes the complex feelings that can strain families and damage lives. A “normal” sibling herself, Safer chronicles her own life-shaping experiences with her troubled brother. She examines the double-edged reality of normal ones: how they both compensate for their siblings’ abnormality and feel guilty for their own health and success. With both wisdom and empathy, she delineates the “Caliban Syndrome,” a set of personality traits characteristic of higher-functioning siblings: premature maturity, compulsion to achieve, survivor guilt, and fear of contagion. Essential reading for normal ones and those who love them, this landmark work offers readers insight, compassion, and tools to help resolve childhood pain. It is a profound and eye-opening examination of a subject that has too long been shrouded in darkness.

Author : Sir Daniel Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Caliban (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OXFORD:591060524

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Caliban: the Missing Link by Sir Daniel Wilson Pdf

Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691123844

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The Sea and the Mirror by W. H. Auden Pdf

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception of art" and it is "my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe The Tempest to be Shakespeare's." This is the first critical edition. Arthur Kirsch's introduction and notes make the poem newly accessible to readers of Auden, readers of Shakespeare, and all those interested in the relation of life and literature--those two classic themes alluded to in its title. The poem begins in a theater after a performance of The Tempest has ended. It includes a moving speech in verse by Prospero bidding farewell to Ariel, a section in which the supporting characters speak in a dazzling variety of verse forms about their experiences on the island, and an extravagantly inventive section in prose that sees the uncivilized Caliban address the audience on art--an unalloyed example of what Auden's friend Oliver Sachs has called his "wild, extraordinary and demonic imagination." Besides annotating Auden's allusions and sources (in notes after the text), Kirsch provides extensive quotations from his manuscript drafts, permitting the reader to follow the poem's genesis in Auden's imagination. This book, which incorporates for the first time previously ignored corrections that Auden made on the galleys of the first edition, also provides an unusual opportunity to see the effect of one literary genius upon another.

Author : Hazel Crampton
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1919931929

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The Sunburnt Queen by Hazel Crampton Pdf

A seven-year-old English girl, washed up on the Wild Coast in about 1736, is adopted by the amaMpondo, grows up to become a woman of surpassing beauty, marries the chief of the clan and becomes an ancestor of many of the Xhosa royal families.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Navigation
ISBN : IND:30000117316897

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International Journal of Maritime History by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Castaways
ISBN : UOM:39015010437328

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The Tempest by William Shakespeare Pdf

Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers.

Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393089677

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Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain by Stephen Taylor Pdf

"Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." —Jan Morris, The Guardian Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. Yet he had a gift for antagonizing his better-born peers, and he made powerful enemies. Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves. Opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and Pellew himself, leading from the front in the style of his contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive. Pellew’s humanity, fondness for subordinates, and blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his letters, make him a hugely engaging figure. Stephen Taylor gives him at last the biography he deserves.

Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300252613

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Sons of the Waves by Stephen Taylor Pdf

A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain’s trade, exploration, and warfare British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation’s destiny in their calloused hands.

Author : James Morrison
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472119202

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Shipwrecked by James Morrison Pdf

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : South Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015066135321

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Kronos by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
ISBN : IND:30000115674925

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Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : François Le Vaillant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129822875

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Travels Into the Interior of Africa Via the Cape of Good Hope by François Le Vaillant Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : South Africa
ISBN : UCLA:L0099997918

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Van Riebeeck Society Publications by Anonim Pdf