John Western (585 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and bright. Ex-owner name. Cover has a little wear to corners. ; 6 X 0.8 X 9 inches; 344 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Social geographer John Western analyzes the urban spatial planning of the 1950 Group Areas Act that achieved, in the built environment of Cape Town, the racial separatism of apartheid. His new prologue for the paperback edition assesses the changes to be expected from the new government and the obstacles to significant change. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No owners' marks; pages are crisp, bright and clean except for some shelf smudging on the page block edges; binding is square and tight; soft cover shows a bit of rubbing along the edges and two tiny creases at corners; otherwise excellent.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. Near Fine. Note: No dustjacket. Generic 'library copy' stamp on the front end paper and title page. Otherwise fine. All orders shipped securely in a bubble envelope or box/hard mailer.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First paperback printing. Text and images unmarked. The wrapper shows some very light handling. 8vo. 396pp.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 63, No 3, pp. 301-321, Maps, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, Stapled & trimmed, thus is llike a pamphlet, last page in facsimile, top corner affected by moisture else VG.

Softcover. Condition: VG-. No Dust Jacket. SIGNED by author. Trade paperback with light, minor cover shelfwear; pages tight, clean. Not library discard. .

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HARDBACK RED. Condition: Fair. pages clean, black and white illustrations, gilt on spine, flaps of dj pasted to inside of boards, myalr cover over dj, exlibrary number on foor of spine of dj DATE PUBLISHED: 1981 EDITION: 372.

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Paperback. Condition: New. In 1968, aged 21, John Western left England, not realising that he might never bother to return. The boy who had always loved maps, trains and travel to new places was posted by Voluntary Service Overseas to a missionary school in rural Burundi, Central Africa. From the world's longest-industrialised country, he pitches into what was probably then its least industrialised nation. For two years, Western experiences life in an 'overwhelmingly illiterate subsistence economy of material poverty' - realities that provide the foundation for his fourth book, An Africa Ago. Two years after he leaves to study in the United States, Burundi's Tutsi ruling minority massacres 100,000 Hutus after an attempted coup against the military dictatorship. In 1975, Western - by this time, living in South Africa to research a doctoral thesis about apartheid in Cape Town - revisits Burundi to assess the aftermath. What he encounters will haunt him for ever. Of the schoolboys he taught, many have vanished into mass graves - carted off in lorries, still alive, then layered face down under rocks. 'The little mission hill,' he finds, 'is now a place of desolation, of widows and orphans and injustice'. Meanwhile, at the southern tip of this complex continent, Western's inside stories of the lives of Cape Town's 'Coloured' (mixed-race) residents, under the heel of 1970s apartheid, reveal an attempt to dominate, oppress and humiliate - not merely to racially segregate. But Western's memoir is not all darkness. There is adventure too - tales of overlanding 7,500 miles in barely two months, most by hitchhiking, Western's route taking in Botswana, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Zambia, Tanzania, and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). And there are accounts of strong bonds forged with working-class Afrikaners utterly removed from any political or racial disputes, the unexpected point of connection being a shared love of locomotives as the era of the steam engine was drawing to its close. And it is trains with which An Africa Ago closes - a luxurious journey on a Namibian 'sealed hotel-on-wheels' from which the author offers us a self-conscious, 21st-century return to the era of white settler colonialism in southern Africa.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Softcover without dust jacket in near fine condition. Pages clean and unmarked. Erie Street Cemetery is Cleveland's oldest existing cemetery. Today downtown Cleveland towers over this peaceful plot of land, which has remained essentially unchanged since it was opened as a burial ground in 1826 at the far edge of the town, whose population was only about 800 at the time. Within the cemetery are the graves of soldiers who served in the Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American War, and it is the last resting place of many of the city's early leaders and pioneer families.…

Hardcover. 372pp, 49 b/w figures. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / very good plus dust jacket.

Condition: New. 1997. paperback. . Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Undated circa 1970 softcover in excellent condition: unmarked, slight handling, pages a little age-yellowed. 290 pages of detailed information for each location in Alaska to Wyoming. [8oz]. Book.