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June 2006Die Meuterei auf der Bounty
Schiff ohne Hafen
by Charles B. Nordhoff, James N. Hall, Ernst Simon
Unter dem Kommando von Captain William Bligh segelt im Jahr 1789 die »Bounty«, ein bewaffnetes Transportschiff, von Tahiti zu den Westindischen Inseln. Doch die Rückfahrt führt in die Katastrophe: Wegen der brutalen Strenge des Kapitäns bricht die wohl bekannteste Meuterei der Geschichte der Seefahrt aus. Auf dem umfangreichen Tatsachenmaterial der britischen Admiralität haben die beiden Autoren das Thema in einem großartigen Roman voller Spannung aufbereitet.
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Biography: general2018TEURA. SOPHIA YABLONSKA
by Oksana Zabuzhko, foreword
"TEURA. SOFIA YABLONSKA" is a project that presents an outstanding Ukrainian female photographer, writer, traveler, and film documentarian Sophia Yablonska. It combines a photo album and 3 books of traveling prose from the literary heritage of Sofia Yablonska (1907-1971) Sophia was called "Theura" - a red bird - and thus recognized as female native of the island of Bora Bora, where she was one of the first to appear with a photo and film camera. In Indochina, Egypt, Ceylon, Bali, Tahiti, New Zealand - everywhere in the world, she filmed a "live" picture of life, and not fashionable productions at that time. The photo album, which was printed in Ukrainian and French (separate versions) with the support of the UKRAINIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION, includes her photos from a trip around the world in the 1930s. Foreword - Oksana Zabuzhko (Kyiv) Photos from the archive of Natalie Udin, Yablonska's granddaughter (Paris) Biography: Veronika Khomenyuk and Andrii Benytskyi (Lviv) Photo captions: Natalka Beshta (Bangkok) Selection of illustrations and design (almost curators): Maria Norazyan and Ilya Pavlov, Grafprom studio (Kharkiv) Project manager: Lidia Likhach"
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FictionTHE HOUSE OF PLEASURE
by Zoé Valdés
WINNER OF THE XXXV JAÉN LITERARY AWARD 2019 Paul Gauguin’s last days in Tahiti is the main subject of La casa del placer , where happiness and torment, disease and survival are mixed with the mysterious joy of creation and the longing memories of an artist who lived for desire and painting.
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Individual artists, art monographsOctober 2014This is Gauguin
by George Roddam
Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists – all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of the late 19th century's artistic mainstream. He created paintings whose radically simplified lines and colours echoed the unschooled art of the rustic and native cultures he loved. After his famously disastrous stay with Vincent van Gogh in southern France, Gauguin escaped European civilization for the Polynesian islands. Immersing himself in the culture, he produced a series of radiant canvases and powerful sculptures – his last great works. From his childhood in Peru to his experiences in Tahiti, the story of Gauguin's life is recounted in authoritative text by an expert on the Post-Impressionists and compelling imagery by an award-winning illustrator.
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Religion & beliefsHistory Of Louisa Barnes Pratt
The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
by ed. S. George Ellsworth
Volume 3, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt. Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent, she hauled her children west to Winter Quarters, to Utah in 1848, to California, and, in Addison's wake, to Tahiti in 1850. The Pratts joined the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California. When in 1858 a federal army's march on Utah led to the colonists' recall, Addision—alienated from the Mormon Church after long absences—chose not to go. Mostly separated thereafter (Addison died in 1872), Louisa settled in Beaver, Utah, where she campaigned for women's rights, contributed to the Woman's Exponent, and depended on her own means, as she had much of her life, until her death in 1880.
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -January 2017Hungarian Art
Confrontation and Revival in the Modern Movement
by Éva Forgács
“I was unable to put down [this book]; one that will be used by those interested in the field for a long time to come.”– Dr. Oliver Botar, Hungarian Cultural Studies Insightful essays, monographic texts, and rarely-seen images trace from birth to maturation several generations of Hungarian Modernism, from the avant-garde to neo-avant-garde. Éva Forgács corrects long-standing misconceptions about Hungarian art while examining the work and social milieu of dozens of important Hungarian artists. The book also paints a fascinating image of twentieth-century Budapest as a microcosm of the social and political turmoil raging across Europe up to and beyond the collapse of the Soviet Era.
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Sucré, salé, poivré et compagnie
by Written by Jacques Pasquet, illustrated by Claire Anghinolfi
Sweet, Salty, Peppery and Company A brilliant nonfiction book about spices found throughout the world: salt, pepper, chilli pepper, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate, coffee, tea... Where do they come from ? In which way and form do they get to us? What shapes can they take ? How are they grown, and then transformed? With his undeniable storytelling talent, Jacques Pasquet explains to us everything we need to know about spices: their story, where they come from, and even some legends surrounding them! Claire Anghinolfi offers us realistic and stylized illustrations painted in gouache.
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September 2013The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
First new unabridged translation since 1876 of one of Verne's best-known novels.
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Biography & True StoriesDecember 2015Son of Paul Gauguin
The Life and Times of Emile Gauguin
by David McIntyre and Francis Butterworth
Son of Paul Gauguin: the life and times of Emile Gauguin is a biography of the insignificant son (his words) of a great and famed painter. A mechanical engineer by trade as far away from the art world as you can get to a world of measurement and construction. Yet Paul Gauguin’s first son’s life from birth to death was never boring Although one may think an engineering career would be staid and carefully ordered, it was nothing of the kind. It started out well-planned being groomed to be an aristocrat, a student in the art of war, finishing as a professional engineer. But then, the plan changed with exciting highs and horrendous lows at every turn. Sprinkled with newly found Gauguin trivia we see a child some might feel neglected by his family, cursed to have an internationally renowned father, grow and mature to a handsome, confident young man yet be rejected and ostracized at almost regular intervals: in Denmark and Colombia and America. Yet still he remained a proud, engineer-adventurer-warrior leading rebel fighters cheating death in the northern Andes, constantly searching for work on three continents, continually facing financial collapse, fighting off hunger as a homeless transient in the American Great Depression. At the same time his marriage was on the rocks, filled with blistering hatred which after a number of long periods of separation and dizzying attempts at reconciliation ended abruptly each time in near total relationship destruction eventually resulting in complete abandonment of five generations including his mother, brothers, wife, children and grandchildren. Then, suddenly, at life’s darkest hour when he wrote his Colombian cousin, summarizing page-after-page his pathetic existence, almost as a miracle his life two thirds over changed one year later to one of happiness and peace.
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Children's & YADiscovering Food
Find out how it's made
by Andrea Minoglio
Where does the food we eat come from? The book, through splendid illustrations, explains to children and adults how the good things we find on our table are made: chocolate, honey, salt, rice, popcorn will have no more secrets. A first double shows the main raw material from which the product derives, with many curiosities about the varieties and the production area. A part dedicated to the supply chain follows, with clear and immediate texts that recount the long journey that each food takes before arriving to us.
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The Chagall Atlas
by NIENKE DENEKAMP
The Chagall Atlas follows Jewish artist Marc Chagall, whose personal and artistic life collided with world history more than once. Born in the 19th Century in anti-Semitist Czarist Russia, Chagall travelled to 20th Century Paris, where Cubism and Fauvism were about to change art forever. During World War I, he was ‘stuck’ in his hometown Vitebsk, right at the Eastern Front of a war that seamlessly merged into the Russian Revolution. Chagall could literally see the Revolution unfold from the window of his office in St. Petersburg. Chagall spent the twenties and thirties in Berlin and Paris, trying not to think about World War II that loomed over Europe. His spectacular escape from Vichy France to the US, where Chagall and his family spent the war along with other exiled artists, is a fantastic story in its own right. After the War, Chagall settled in the South of France, where he lived next door to Picasso and Matisse. But it wasn’t until later in life, against the backdrop of the Cold War and the foundation of the State of Israel, that he fully came into his own as an artist.
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Historical adventureJuly 2014Khan's Legacy
by David J Andrews
Guy Tresanton and his business partner Rose are once again drawn into a battle for survival with the Teacher. Their merciless enemy has drawn great strength from the capture of certain ancient artefacts. He now stands poised to use the power they give him to eliminate all who oppose him and seek the final piece of the puzzle devised so long ago by the man who ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known, Kublai Kahn. The Elders, a secret philanthropic organisation charged with the responsibility to maintain order in the world, join forces with Guy, Rose, their indomitable friend Monty the Bahamian policemen now working for Interpol and many others from around the world who all combine to thwart the Teacher's plans. Filled with exciting historical facts this fast paced story flies from the Caribbean, moving swiftly to the Arctic Circle through Russia , East Africa, on to Vietnam, China and eventually to Australia. Climaxing in an thrilling showdown in the Indian Ocean. Posing many challenging questions of the reader - is the Teacher really the arch villain? Are there greater forces with the even more evil intent of world domination behind him? Will Guy and his friends save the day? Seeking Kahn's Legacy we learn much about a thrilling era of history few will know of until now.
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The Rawn Racker Show
by D J Cooke
Rawn Rackers: Entertainment: Music: Film: Humour: Because Rawn Rackers is cockney rhyme for Crackers. So it’s Rawn Rackers, were everyone and everything is crackers
