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Sources of the History of North Africa, Asia and Oceania in Denmark
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Includes Part 1A: Books, Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals and Part 2: Periodicals. (Part 2: Periodicals incorporates Part 2, Volume 41, 1946, New Series)
The Galapagos Affair
Over half-a-century ago fanciful and exotic stories began to appear in the world's press about settlers on the remote Galapagos island of Floreana. The tales were of nudism, free love communes, stainless steel dentures - a latter-day Garden of Eden. But the truth was even stranger. Friedrich Ritter, an eccentric German intellectual, and his long-suffering companion Dora Strauch, were the first arrivals. Once established, they were soon joined by others. Most bizarre and dangerous was the self-styled Baroness Wagner-Bosquet. She ruled her three young male lovers with a riding crop, a pearl-handled revolver and insatiable sexual demands - terrorising other settlers. Her mysterious disappearance and the discovery of unidentified bodies on a nearby island perplexed the world. Now The Galapagos Affair unravels the whole incredible story.
Iridescent Kuwait
Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum’s role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political representation, and oil. The notion of iridescence, the ambiguous yet mesmerizing effect of a rainbowlike color play, serves as analytical-aesthetic concept to discuss petroleum’s ambiguous contribution to modernity: both promise of prosperity and destructive force of socio-cultural and ecological environments. Covering a broad spectrum of historical material from aerial and color photography, visual arts, postage stamps, and master plans to architecture and also contemporary art from the Gulf, it dismantles petro- modernity’s visual legacy.
Arctic Bibliography
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Zanzibar
Den danske eventyrer Hakon Mielche fortæller om sin lange rejse til Afrika i starten af 1950‘erne. Midt imellem de spændende personlige oplevelser og mødet med afrikanerne fortæller Hakon Mielche om Afrikas historie, både før og efter europæerne begyndte at kolonisere det enorme kontinent. "Zanzibar" er skrevet i 1950‘erne og bruger til tider udtryk og vendinger, der kan virke stødende og racistiske i dag. Dette er ikke udtryk for forlagets holdning. Hakon Mielche (1904-1979) var en dansk journalist, eventyrer og forfatter. Han er bedst kendt for sine mange spændende bøger om sine eventyrlige rejser rundt i den store verden, som han med stort litterært talent tryllebandt læseren med. Under besættelsen måtte Hakon Mielche meget modvilligt blive i Danmark på grund af udrejseforbuddet. Han udnyttede tiden, hvor han ikke kunne tage på eventyr, til at skrive en række biografier samt en enkelt selvbiografi. Hakon Mielche var medlem af Eventyrernes Klub, og hans bøger er blevet oversat til over 10 sprog.
Oceanographic History
From a study of knowledge of the sea among indigenous cultures in the South Seas to inquiries into the subject of sea monsters, from studies of Pacific currents to descriptions of ocean-going research vessels, the sixty-three essays presented here reflect the scientific complexity and richness of social relationships that characterize ocean-ographic history. Based on papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (the first ICHO meeting following the cessation of the Cold War), the volume features an unusual breadth of contributions. Oceanography itself involves the full spectrum of physical, biological, and...
