Oprah:A Biography (import)

Oprah: A Biography (import)

by K.Kelley, ISBN: 9780307394866, R315.00, publication April 2010, Order Now
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The first comprehensive biography of one of the most admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era. Anyone who is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinary life and career will be fascinated by this exhaustively researched book.

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to Surprise Anyone, 19 April 2010 By  Wild about Books - See all my reviews This review is from: Oprah: A Biography (Hardcover) I have just finished reading the book and it was pretty much what I thought it would be. No new surprises and actually nothing really offensive in it that Oprah should worry about. She is human and has made mistakes and you simply do not get to where she is today without stepping on a few toes. There is no one who doesn't have things in their past that they either omit or embellish on as time goes by. The book is not a bad read but nothing less or nothing more.

New Title: Rock Shelter

Title: Rock Shelters

Subtitle: Some Cave and Cliff Structures in Lesotho and South Africa 

Author: Pieter Jolly

Description

This book is a high quality, colour, profusely illustrated record of cave and cliff structures built by people in Lesotho and South Africa. It documents a variety of structures built in caves or in the shelter of cliffs, as well as the people who inhabit/inhabited them. The latter include/d: Nguni and Sotho subsistence farmers, initiates, herbalists and traditional healers; European priests; European farmers; and holiday makers and hikers.  The book's topic is unique, and it features some very unusual and interesting structures and people, many of them very colourful. It has a strong African heritage component and it is anticipated that it will appeal not only to southern African people interested in African architecture and ethnography, but also to tourists interested in African cultures. 

This book is primarily a photographic record of some of these structures and the people who once inhabited, or who still inhabit them. However, the histories of the occupation of these structures are also recorded here with the help of oral and historical records.

About the Author

Pieter Jolly is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town. His professional interests include the symbolism and conservation of San rock art as well as the history of interaction between the south-eastern San and southern Nguni and Sotho communities. In the course of his archaeological work in Lesotho and adjacent areas he came across, became interested in, and documented the cave and cliff structures as well as the decorated Sotho buildings that feature, respectively, in Rock Shelter and Ditema.

Published By: Vernacularch

210mm x 245mm / SC grate fold / 135pp / ISBN 978-0-620-45605-0/ R225  / April 2010

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