Unconquerable Spirit: George Stow's History Paintings of the San Tapa dura - 2009 - 1st Edición

Ohio University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. Hardback. 0821418696 . Please note that this is a heavy item and may require additional posatge for international shipping. ; Dust jackett stiff and bright, slightly rubbed, spotting on flaps and at fore-edges of panels, prior price label on rear; Laminate paper boards clean and sharp, no significant wear; Pages lightly spotted on top-edge, no ownership marks, B&W and coloured plates; Binding tight. ; 11.25 x 9"; 218 pages .

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press / Jacana, 2008. N., S. America and the Pacific Rim. Hardbound. Color pictorial on cream boards, matching dust jacket, 218 pp, profuse and mostly large color images. From the publisher: George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts—poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the caves and shelters of the South African interior. Enchanted and absorbed by them, Stow set out to create a record of this creative work of the people who had tracked and marked the South African landscape decades and centuries before him. Unconquerable Spirit reveals the scope and the beauty of his labors. Stow's paintings are more than just copies of what he found on the rocks. They are interpretations of the art of the San, informed by his own understanding of a particularly turbulent time in South African history and his sense… Leer más

Ohio University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed. a neat copy, clean and presentable. signed by author. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Ohio University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x1x9. Signed. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. The jacket and boards are tidy overall with little edge wear. The binding is secure. The balance of the pages are clean and crisp with no ink inscriptions or annotations. Oblong and heavy book, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. Presents well in cellophane. JHK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Ohio University Press, Athens, 2008. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 220 pages 160 illustrations in color. .