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Lucy C. Lloyd

    Lucy Catherine Lloydová se narodila v Norbury v Anglii v roce 1834. Byla dcerou vikáře a vyrůstala v liberálním prostředí. Po matčině smrti a druhém sňatku otce, se sestrami pobývala u strýce, kde se jí dostalo svobodného vzdělání. Po otcově vyslání do Durbanu v Jižní Africe se se sestrou Jemimou, která se provdala za lingvistu Wilhelma Bleeka, stala svědkem koloniálního života. Znechucena otcovým pokrytectvím, odmítla mu dát část svého dědictví a byla z domova vyhnána. Vztah s George Woolleym, synem pastora, skončil rozchodem, kterého po celý život litovala, a obvinila z toho své vlastní teorie a nezkušenost.

    Specimens of Bushman Folklore
    Panther Project Volume 1
    Panther Project Vol 2
    The Girl Who Made Stars
    • The Girl Who Made Stars

      • 150 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení
      4,5(2)Ohodnotit

      These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories in this book carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.

      The Girl Who Made Stars
    • The second volume in The Panther Project series detailing the incredible restoration being carried out on a Panther Ausf. A in the workshops of the Wheatcroft Collection. This volume comprises 208 pages, covers the period 2009-2018, and concentrates on the restoration of the Turret and its contents, the Maybach 230 P30 engine, and various components of the cooling and fuel systems. It contains 440 photographs and 12 A4 color diagrams, including 45 pre-restoration images, and a wartime history.

      Panther Project Vol 2
    • Panther Project Volume 1

      • 96 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení

      Photo study of the full restoration of a WW2 Panther tank

      Panther Project Volume 1