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Aujourd’hui booktrip.fr vous fait découvrir le quartier de Dumbo à New-York.
Les rues pavées de Dumbo et les entrepôts reconvertis de Brooklyn constituent la toile de fond des boutiques indépendantes, des restaurants haut de gamme et des cafés tendance de ce quartier branché. Aménagée dans une ancienne usine de tabac à proximité du détroit, la St. Ann’s Warehouse est un haut lieu d'expositions et des arts du spectacle. Il est possible de profiter d'une vue pittoresque sur Manhattan depuis l'extrémité nord du Brooklyn Bridge Park, où se trouve également le manège historique Jane’s Carousel.
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J. A. Carnes’ “Journal of a Voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa: with a full description of the manner of trading with the natives on the coast”. First edition, 1852.
An American trading voyage which called at several points along the coast from Cape Verde to Principe. Carnes is an astute observer and his narrative provides some fascinating details, whilst he also provides some powerful arguments against slavery. The appendix contains a lengthy consideration of West African peoples, in particular their skill as hunters and craftsmen.
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A detail from one of our highlights going to the Olympia Book Fair - remarkable original artworks, depicting an expedition in Central Africa. A detail of some of the original drawings and watercolours for the Charles S. L. Bateman’s book ’The First Ascent of the Kasai: being some Records of service Under the Lone Star’.
The First Ascent of the Kasai … was published in 1889 — a handsomely illustrated volume that recorded the author’s part in an expedition to determine where the waters of the Kasai River emptied themselves.
Charles Somerville LaTrobe Bateman joined the so-called ‘German Expedition’ (despatched by the Geographical Society of Berlin under the commission of Leopold II) on the return-leg of the river-voyage, which had succeeded in its initial aim of descending the Kasai to the Congo at Kwamouth; thereby confirming the Kasai as a tributary to the great river. Bateman and the expedition leader, Dr. Wolf, were tasked with ascending the Kasai in order to return the Bashilange-Baluba people (who had acted as guides for the descent) to their homeland at the headwaters of the river. Once there they had a second objective to fulfil: to establish a station at the confluence of the Lulua with Luebo, as a port for the station of Luluaburg.
In addition to his primary duties as second-in-command to Wolf, Bateman found time to create a remarkable visual record of the expedition, that passed through the territories of the Chiplumba, Basongo-Meno, Bakuba and Bakete tribes. His drawings, watercolours and etchings of the native peoples, flora and fauna and river scenes, recorded things never before depicted (and in some cases seen) by Europeans. They subsequently provided the basis for the excellent plates in his book, which illustrate, inter alia, Hippopotami on the southern shore of Stanley Pool, Bakuba cups and knives, Lulua fish and Bakete hunters.
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