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Science cultivating practice : a history of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its colonies, 1863-1986 by Harro Maat
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About meI confess to being addicted to collecting and reading books of a wide variety. Favorites are history and travel (both fiction and nonfiction) books, including antiquarium books, relating to countries I know best--especially Australia, India and Pakistan, Mexico, and anglophone countries of Africa. I also collect books on the British Empire (the good and the bad), agricultural and food history in developing countries, and the history of science.
About my libraryI have a collection of about 2000 books, only hard backs, mostly organized by country. About one third are antiquarian dating from the late 19th century. I also have a nice collection of books about the history of specific foods.
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HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by omboy at 11:20 am (EST) on Jul 3, 2008
I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.
Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.
Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.
Best wishes,
Dan Wells
posted by biblioasis at 9:38 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008