The Rapids

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BASIL DAVIDSON
has also written
The African Awakening
'What he has to report is deeply disturbing he has succeeded brilliantly in lifting the curtain from a corner of Africa that has been too little exposed to the scrutiny of skilled observers.' observer
'A striking, disturbing piece of work.' Birmingham post
'Passionately concerned with the cause of African advancement, he has done well to concentrate on the problems, past and present, of Central Africa. The African Awakening examines the impact of European civilization on Central African life, from the years of Portuguese discovery, through the period of Belgian enterprise (and oppression), to the contemporary age of industrial and political ferment it deserves the tribute of sincere clichés: Mr. Davidson is eminently readable, displays both wit and insight, quotes with a journalist's ease and erudition from the Lusiads or from The Times a valuable and competent introduction to a subject of great importance.'... Tovább

Fülszöveg

BASIL DAVIDSON
has also written
The African Awakening
'What he has to report is deeply disturbing he has succeeded brilliantly in lifting the curtain from a corner of Africa that has been too little exposed to the scrutiny of skilled observers.' observer
'A striking, disturbing piece of work.' Birmingham post
'Passionately concerned with the cause of African advancement, he has done well to concentrate on the problems, past and present, of Central Africa. The African Awakening examines the impact of European civilization on Central African life, from the years of Portuguese discovery, through the period of Belgian enterprise (and oppression), to the contemporary age of industrial and political ferment it deserves the tribute of sincere clichés: Mr. Davidson is eminently readable, displays both wit and insight, quotes with a journalist's ease and erudition from the Lusiads or from The Times a valuable and competent introduction to a subject of great importance.' financial times
THE RAPIDS
Captain Stanton greets the evening of his Hfe with amused surprise at the distinguished if slightly eccentric place he occupies in the society of tropical Delmina. A man of character, renowned for his courage as a pioneer of the equatorial forest, he believes himself moved by only one profound emotion —the love he has for his daughter Stella. He longs for her to return this love.
Stella comes back to the tropics after formative years in Europe. At first it seems that all his hopes will be fulfilled; and her return brings him the contentment of an Indian Summer. But the love of these two leads them into situations neither had foreseen, nor could have foreseen. Captain Stanton is drawn and driven in spite of himself into the stress and conflict of a colonial world in violent motion. Clinging to his love for Stella, he finds himself swept from his old understanding of life towards a new and larger understanding. The boundaries of love and happiness widen, even though at strange and terrible cost. The smaller emotion flowers into the greater. Vissza