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Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
de Wek, Alek
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- AA NEW/AS NEW/PB
- ISBN 10
- 1844084426
- ISBN 13
- 9781844084425
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Virago.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card photo-covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to bottom edge. No creases to spine or hinge. Un-read. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: 2 X 8pp, blocks of colour photos.* Pages: 214 pp. text.* Product Description:- Alek Wek grew up in the Sudan in the midst of the vicious civil war. Now, at age 28, she is one of the most sought-after supermodels in the world, and has single-handedly changed the traditional concept of what is beautiful in the West. As model, refugee activist and businesswoman she is an inspiration - and this remarkable real-life story sheds light on her journey from Dinka clan roots in war-torn Sudan to a new beginnings in Brooklyn.* This is a FINE AS NEW copy with ABSOLUTELY minimal shelf wear.*
Sinopsis
Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When she's not the featured model in print campaigns for hip companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the runways of Paris, New York, and Milan to model for the world's leading designers, including Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. But nothing in her early years prepared her for the life of a model.Born in Wau, in the southern Sudan, Alek knew only a few years of peace with her family before they were caught up in a ruthless civil war that pitted outlaw militias, the Muslim-dominated government, and southern rebels against each other in a brutal conflict that killed nearly two million people. Here is her daring story of fleeing the war on foot and her escape to London, where her rise from young model to supermodel was all the more notable because of Alek's non-European looks.A probe into the Sudanese conflict and an inside look into the life of a most unique supermodel, Alek is a book that will inspire as well as inform.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 71
- Título
- Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
- Autor
- Wek, Alek
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp?
- ISBN 10
- 1844084426
- ISBN 13
- 9781844084425
- Editorial
- Virago Press Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- 320
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007-11-08
- Size
- 23.2 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
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