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1. Frontier series
 
2. Don Roberto. Being the account
 
3. A chronological bibliography of
$9.95
4. Biography - Cunninghame Graham,
 
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5. The North American Sketches of
 
$13.40
6. Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in
 
7. Don Roberto;: The story of Robert

1. Frontier series
by A. F Tschiffely
 Unknown Binding: 458 Pages (1937)

Asin: B000852VYK
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2. Don Roberto. Being the account of the life and works of R.B. Cunninghame Graham 1852-1936
by A.F Tschiffely
 Hardcover: Pages (1937)

Asin: B000NZ757I
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3. A chronological bibliography of works on R.B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)
by John Walker
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1978)

Asin: B0007AOHCA
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4. Biography - Cunninghame Graham, R(obert) B(ontine) (1852-1936): An article from: Contemporary Authors
by Gale Reference Team
Digital: 10 Pages (2002-01-01)
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Asin: B0007SB38S
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Book Description
This digital document, covering the life and work of R(obert) B(ontine) Cunninghame Graham, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2823 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

  • Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
  • Family members
  • Education
  • Professional associations and honors
  • Employment
  • Writings, including books and periodicals
  • A description of the author's work
  • References to further readings about the author
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5. The North American Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham
 Hardcover: 160 Pages (1987-11-30)
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Asin: 0817303553
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Savagery and humanity in the Texas-Mexico borderlands
R.B. Cunninghame Graham's books are the sort of non-fiction that can almost be passed off as fiction. Desolate but fascinating wastelands, journeys over the silent terrain of the Americas, encounters with the bare edges of existence -- all make his works so engaging that I can't think of any writers to compare with him except his friends Joseph Conrad and W.H. Hudson.

Culled from his thirty or more books, Graham's "North American Sketches" were written between 1880 and 1925.They form the companion volume to his stunning South American and Scottish sketches also edited by John Walker.Here, we travel with the eccentric Scottish gaucho and radical MP for Menteith to the Mexican frontier and the Texas borderlands.

It is a savage world oscillating between barbarity and loneliness Graham describes for us.Time is punctuated with bloodshed, pointless cruelty, man's inhumanity to man, but also with hope and awe of this still wild land. "A Hegira," perhaps the most powerful sketch, depicts Graham's repeated encounters with six fugitive Mexican Apaches escaping from "the law" as he and his wife head north from Mexico City to their San Antonio ranch."Silent and stoical the warriors sat," he describes them in the first encounter, before their flight, "not speaking once in a whole day, communicating but by signs; naked except the breech-clout; their eyes apparently opaque, and looking at you without sight, but seeing everything."These figures from two worlds meet up again."Days followed days as in a ship at sea; the waggons rolling on across the plains" as Graham's party continually spies traces of the Apaches fleeing to their homes in the north, pursued by Mexican Indian hunters who, over a week, track down and kill them all.Nothing during his journey inspires in him so much fascination as those "stoical," silent "indios bravos":"I wondered what they thought, how they looked upon the world."

There is in these sketches a profound sense of disenchantment with civilization as practised, with "progress" as conceived.The American and Mexican public, he writes, doubtless believe in the problematical "Uncle Sam's Justice [sic]," the "poetical justice" of slaughtering Indians.Nevertheless, Graham does not completely scorn "civilization"; far from it."We might have taught [the Indians] something, they might have taught us much, but soon they will all be forgotten, and the lying telegrams will speak of 'glorious victories by our troops.' "Some sketches, in fact, exhibit Graham's great admiration for the Anglo and Mexican societies he in other places condemns."A Chihuahueño" is a wonderful portrait of Miguel Sáenz, a mestizo from Chihuahua.Full of Sáenz's witty proverbs, the sketch shows Graham's fascination with folk sayings."Trust not a mule nor a wench", Sáenz quips; and "Among soldiers and prostitutes all compliments stand excused."

Graham's portraits of Mexico and Texas are every bit as fascinating as his awesome South American Sketches.If you like W.H. Hudson and Joseph Conrad, you'll love R.B. Cunninghame Graham. ... Read more


6. Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco (Marlboro Travel)
by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
 Paperback: 358 Pages (1997-03-30)
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Asin: 0810160366
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars lots to learn from this book - and great fun to read
-sheds a lot of light on Morocco and on the perspective of the British guy who wrote it at the end of the 19th century.In some ways Morocco at that time was perhaps a bit like Afghanistan today...?--Worth thinking about...

5-0 out of 5 stars Wonderful escape into a past world
Cunninghame Graham is a superb observer and writer.In Mogreb-el-Acksa,published in 1898, Graham describes his attempt to cross the AtlasMountains and reach the forbidden city of Tarudant.However, he wasdetained in the mountains for four months by the Kaid of Kintafi, andultimately turned back to Marakesh. The places he visits and the people hemeets come alive, and a current of humor bubbles throughout the narrative. His observations on western vs. eastern cultures, in many instancesunfavorable to both but usually funny and profound, apparently made thebook unpopular when it was published.I recommended the book to twofriends, one a world traveller, the other a Moroccan.Both loved it.

5-0 out of 5 stars Wonderful escape into a past world
Cunninghame Graham is a superb observer and writer.In Mogreb-el-Acksa,published in 1898, Graham describes his attempt to cross the AtlasMountains and reach the forbidden city of Tarudant.However, he wasdetained in the mountains for four months by the Kaid of Kintafi, andultimately turned back to Marakesh. The places he visits and the people hemeets come alive, and a current of humor bubbles throughout the narrative. His observations on western vs. eastern cultures, in many instancesunfavorable to both but usually funny and profound, apparently made thebook unpopular when it was published.I recommended the book to twofriends, one a world traveller, the other a Moroccan.Both loved it. ... Read more


7. Don Roberto;: The story of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) Author, traveller, horseman, socialist, nationalist and champion of the under-dog
by Robert Kemp
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1952)

Asin: B0007ISEYY
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