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Between Sea and Sahara
Eugene Fromentin
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Description for Between Sea and Sahara
hardcover. Translator(s): Robinson, Blake. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1HBA; AGB; BG; HBJH; WTH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 585. Weight in Grams: 454.
Between Sea and Sahara gives us Algeria in the third decade of colonization. Written in the 1850s by the gifted painter and extraordinary writer Eugene Fromentin, the many-faceted work is travelogue, fiction, stylized memoir, and essay on art. Fromentin paints a compelling word picture of Algeria and its people, questioning France’s—and his own—role there. He shows French dynamism tending to arrogance, tinged with malaise, as well as the complexity of the Algerians and their canny survival tactics. In his efforts to capture the non-Western world on paper as well as on canvas, Fromentin reveals much about the roots of a ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821412725
SKU
V9780821412725
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About Eugene Fromentin
Eugene Fromentin (1820-1876) was a master in two arts. Especially known for his paintings of North Africa, he was the author of two travel books on the region. He also wrote the novel Dominique and a work on Flemish and Dutch painting. Both Flaubert and George Sand thought highly of him as a writer. Blake Robinson is a translator from ... Read more
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