Bøger af James MacManus

An extraordinary story of high diplomacy, low intrigue and a dangerous love affair set during the fiery nights of the Blitz

Little Indabas: Stories Of Kaffir, Boer, And Natal Life (1900) is a collection of short stories written by James MacManus. The book is set in South Africa during the late 19th century and explores the lives of the Kaffir, Boer, and Natal people. The stories are told through the eyes of a young boy named Indabas, who serves as the narrator and protagonist of the book.The book is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different group of people. The first section explores the lives of the Kaffir people, who were indigenous to the region. MacManus provides a vivid description of their culture, traditions, and way of life. He also highlights the challenges they faced due to the arrival of European settlers.The second section of the book focuses on the Boer people, who were Dutch settlers in South Africa. MacManus provides a glimpse into their lives, including their struggles with the British government and their relationships with the Kaffir people.The final section of the book explores the lives of the Natal people, who were a mix of European, African, and Indian descent. MacManus provides a detailed account of their culture and way of life, including their struggles with discrimination and prejudice.Throughout the book, MacManus uses Indabas to provide a unique perspective on the different cultures and people of South Africa. The stories are engaging and provide a valuable insight into the history and culture of the region. Overall, Little Indabas: Stories Of Kaffir, Boer, And Natal Life (1900) is an important historical document that offers a glimpse into a bygone era.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Journalist Richard Brady arrives in Africa looking for stories, but soon finds Patience, a young freedom-fighting teacher. In a country shadowed by civil war, and with the odds increasingly stacked against them, can true love triumph?

Ike and Kay is a thrilling tale of wartime romance, brimming with love, duty, sacrifice and heartbreak, set against the backdrop of the most tumultuous period of the twentieth century.

As loyalties are stretched to the limit and Europe slides towards another war, could just one act of great courage and sacrifice change everything?

Unfolding among the bars and salons during revolutionary times, Black Venus is an intoxicating story of love and betrayal in which drugs, absinthe and lust prove the making, and the destruction, of a great poet.

The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety - only to die tragically in early 1945.The author, James MacManus, was working as a reporter in Shanghai in 1980s when he heard talk of a statue being up in the remote town of Shandon on the Mongolian border in memory of an Englishman called George Hogg. This book is the result of his investigations - and the basis for a major feature film called 'The Children of Huang Shi', directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Jonathan Rhys Myers, to be released in spring 2008.One westerner who lived in China throughout the Cultural Revolution described Hogg as "e;an outstanding young Englishman who fell in love with foreign people and devoted his life to their betterment. What he did made him deeply and widely loved."e;MacManus has been back to China to interview the surviving old boys of Hogg's school. Hogg's reputation is kept alive by their loyalty to this day.The dramatic trajectory of Hogg's life took him within a few months from a privileged existence at Oxford to life on the run from Japanese secret police in China.