Still Life
Автор: Zoe Wicomb
Год издания: 0000
Few in his native Scotland know about Thomas Pringle – the abolitionist, publisher, and – some would say – Father of South African Poetry. A biography of Pringle is in order, and a reluctant writer takes up this task. To help tell the story of Pringle is the spectre of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave whose history he had once published. Also offering advice is the ghost of Hinza Marossi, Pringle’s adopted Khoesan son, and the timetraveller Sir Nicholas Greene, a character exhumed from the pages of a book. While Mary is breathing fire and Sir Nicholas’s heart is pining, Hinza is interrogating his origins. But what is to be made of the life of Pringle so many years after his death by this motley crew from the 1800s? As the apparitions flit through time and space to put together the pieces of Pringle’s story and find their own place in his biography, Zoe Wicomb’s novel offers an acerbic exploration of colonial history in superb prose and with piercing wit.
Traite complet de l'art de la distillation. T. 1
Автор: Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Traite complet de l'art de la distillation : tome premier : contenant, dans un ordre methodique, les instructions theoriques et pratiques les plus exactes et les plus nouvelles sur la preparation des liqueurs alcoholiques avec les raisins, les grains, les pommes de terre, les fecules et tous les vegetaux sucres ou farineux / par M. Dubrunfaut».
Traite complet de l'art de la distillation. T. 2
Автор: Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Traite complet de l'art de la distillation : tome second : contenant, dans un ordre methodique, les instructions theoriques et pratiques les plus exactes et les plus nouvelles sur la preparation des liqueurs alcoholiques avec les raisins, les grains, les pommes de terre, les fecules et tous les vegetaux sucres ou farineux / par M. Dubrunfaut».