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Books by Aidan Hartley






The Zanzibar Chest(Reprint)
A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
von Aidan Hartley
Paperback, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Grove Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2585-9, ISBN: 0-8021-2585-9

"Combining literary reportage, memoir, family history, and a quest to piece together a decades-old mystery, The Zanzibar Chest is a moving examination of colonialism and its consequences. In his final days, Aidan Hartley’s father said to him, “We should have never come.” Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family. From a great-great-grandfather who defended British settlement ..."






Plough Quarterly No. 20 - The Welcome Table
von Edwidge Danticat, Sarah Ruden, Daniel Larison, Uk-Bae Lee, Norman Wirzba, Luci Shaw, Elizabeth Genovise, Philip Britts, Aidan Hartley, Leah Libresco, Johannes Meier, Richard Joyner, Ellesa Clay High, Claudio Oliver, Jane Sloan Peters, Peter Mommsen
Paperback, 96 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Plough Publishing House
ISBN-13: 978-0-87486-287-4, ISBN: 0-87486-287-6

"Food – how it’s grown, how it’s shared – makes us who we are. This issue traces the connections between farm and food, between humus and human. According to the first book of the Bible, tending the earth was humankind’s first task: “The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Gen. 2:8). The desire to get one’s hands dirty raising one’s own food, then, doesn’t just come from modern ro ..."






The Zanzibar Chest(Updated)
A Memoir of Love and War. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2004
von Aidan Hartley
Paperback, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-653121-0, ISBN: 0-00-653121-0

"A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of autobiographical journalism. Aidan Hartley, a foreign correspondent, burned-out from the horror of covering the terrifying micro wars of the 1990s, from Rwanda to Bosnia, seeks solace and ..."






The Zanzibar Chest(Reprint)
von Aidan Hartley
Paperback, 496 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-011-9, ISBN: 1-59448-011-7

" Hartley, an acclaimed frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of his own family's 150-year-colonial legacy in Africa. A beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid young men cut down in their prime, of forbidden love and its fatal consequences, and of family and history. and the collision of cultures over the enduring course of British colonialism in ..."






The Zanzibar Chest(1st Edition)
A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
von 1965- Aidan Hartley
Hardcover, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Atlantic Monthly Press
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-871-2, ISBN: 0-87113-871-9

"An epic narrative combining the literary reportage of Ryzard Kapuscinski with a historical love story reminiscent of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient In his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before, Aidan Hartley’s father says to him, "We should have never come." Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back over 150 years through four gen ..."






The Zanzibar Chest
A Memoir of Love and War
von Aidan Hartley
Hardcover, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Harpercollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-257059-6, ISBN: 0-00-257059-9






Warriors(Updated)
Life and Death Among the Somalis
von Gerald Hanley, Joseph Hone, Aidan Hartley
Paperback, 228 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Eland Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-907871-83-5, ISBN: 0-907871-83-6

"This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of a little-known aspect of WWII, Warriors describes a group of British Army soldiers charged with preventing bloodshed between feuding tribes at a remote outstation in Somalia. Hanley turns this period of his life, a difficult time that drove ..."






The Farm
von Aidan Hartley
Veröffentlicht 2020 von William Collins
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-835396-4, ISBN: 0-00-835396-4

"Paradise of Thorns is a restlessly inventive literary memoir: the story of Aidan's departure from cities and the irresistible move back to his real home."






FARM.
von Aidan. Hartley
Veröffentlicht 2020
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-835397-1, ISBN: 0-00-835397-2

"From the Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author, a powerful literary memoir about life in rural Nairobi, one of the last true wildernesses of the world."






The Zanzibar Chest
A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
von Aidan Hartley
480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Grove Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-8978-3, ISBN: 0-8021-8978-4

"He introduced himself as a photographer for the Australian Associated Press, based out of Sydney. “I didn't know there was such a thing as the AAP,” I said. “It's part of the AP, but it's the Australian wing,” Andric replied breezily. He struck me as ..."






Wild Life
Adventures on an African Farm
von Aidan Hartley
Hardcover, 304 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von William Heinemann Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-434-01383-8, ISBN: 0-434-01383-8

"The Story of An African Farm is structured in seasons, as life is lived on thefarm."






Wild Life
Adventures on an African Farm
von Aidan Hartley
Hardcover, 304 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Random House Canada
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-31394-6, ISBN: 0-679-31394-X

"The irresistible story of Aidan Hartley's adventures and misadventures setting up a farm in Kenya with his wife and two young children."






Paradise of Thorns
von Aidan Hartley
336 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Harpercollins Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-835398-8, ISBN: 0-00-835398-0

"Paradise of Thorns is a restlessly inventive literary memoir: the story of Aidan's departure from cities and the irresistible call that pulled him back to the wilds."






Wild Life
von Aidan Hartley
Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-948432-5, ISBN: 0-09-948432-3






Warriors
Life and Death among the Somalis
von Gerald Hanley, Joseph Hone, Aidan Hartley
Veröffentlicht 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-906011-93-2, ISBN: 1-906011-93-1






Wild Life
von Aidan Hartley
Paperback, 304 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von William Heinemann
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-434-01384-5, ISBN: 0-434-01384-6

"From the author of the international bestseller The Zanzibar Chest comes the irresistible story of his adventures and misadventures setting up a farm in Kenya.Five years ago, Aidan Hartley decided to take the plunge and follow a dream he had been nursing since childhood: with his wife Claire, and daughter, Eve, he packed up his bags and headed off to Laikipia in Northern Kenya where he would buy a vast tract of dry land with no fences, ..."






Il forziere di Zanzibar. Una storia di amore e guerra
von Aidan Hartley, M. G. Cavallo
Paperback, 468 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Fusi Orari
ISBN-13: 978-88-89674-06-2, ISBN: 88-89674-06-7






The Zanzibar Chest
A Memoir of Love and War
von Aidan Hartley
Ebook, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-738026-8, ISBN: 0-00-738026-7

"Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of autobiographical journalism."

Alle Autoren

Aidan Hartley

Joseph Hone

Gerald Hanley

Richard Joyner

Johannes Meier

Leah Libresco

Ellesa Clay High

Peter Mommsen

Jane Sloan Peters

Claudio Oliver


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Reprint

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2019 - 2020

2015 - 2017

2011 - 2013

2009 - 2011

2005 - 2007

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