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The great myths of the world create meaning from fundamental human experiences: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, and the seasons. They convey life’s essence in voices that are both familiar and intriguingly distant. This comprehensive guide to enduring mythological traditions combines the narratives of the myths with essential background for deeper understanding. Noted expert Roy Willis collaborates with nineteen leading scholars to navigate the complexities of myth, distilling the essence of each regional tradition while focusing on significant figures and captivating stories. The book covers all aspects of key mythologies, including tales of warring deities, revenge, metamorphosis, lustful gods, star-crossed lovers, and journeys to the underworld. Each myth is presented in detail, accompanied by engaging introductory text. It also includes summaries of important theories regarding the origins and meanings of myths, as well as an exploration of recurring themes across civilizations. Beautifully illustrated with over 500 color photographs, artworks, charts, and maps, this guide offers readers an accessible entry point into the rich heritage of the world’s imagination.

Winning a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Anil’s Ghost is another award-winning novel from Michael Ondaatje. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, Sri Lanka has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody civil war. Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka but educated in England and the U.S., is sent by an international human rights group to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders in her homeland. Working with an archaeologist, she discovers a skeleton whose identity takes Anil on a fascinating journey that involves a riveting mystery. What follows, in a novel rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love and loss, about family, identity and the unknown enemy. And it is a quest to unlock the hidden past—like a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse the farther we reach into history. A universal tale of the casualties of war, unfolding as a detective story, the book gradually gives way to a more intricate exploration of its characters, a symphony of loss and loneliness haunted by a cast of solitary strangers and ghosts. The atrocities of a seemingly futile, muddled war are juxtaposed against the ancient, complex and ultimately redemptive culture and landscape of Sri Lanka.

Belevenissen van Britse migranten in Kenya na de onafhankelijkheid.

Een wees in communistisch China gaat voor zijn boeddhistische meester een heilig boek zoeken in Amerika.

Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.