The Prophet's Camel Bell
de Laurence, Margaret
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- Librería
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; bright red cloth covers with gilt titles; unfaded yellow dustjacket has picture of Somali women and camels; very light edgewear to dj; very slight rubbing; very minimal wear; collectible; Laurence talks of her stay in Somalia with her engineer husband. In particular, she talks with great respect of the life of the nomadic camel-herding Somalis.
Sinopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen . From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987.
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- Librería
- Werdz Quality Used Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 002286
- Título
- The Prophet's Camel Bell
- Autor
- Laurence, Margaret
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Editorial
- McClelland and Stewart
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto, ON
- Fecha de publicación
- 1963
- Palabras clave
- TRAVEL COLLECTIBLE SOMALIA SOMALILAND CAMEL HERDING NOMADIC TRIBES AFRICA
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