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1. Frontier series by A. F Tschiffely | |
Unknown Binding: 458
Pages
(1937)
Asin: B000852VYK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
3. A chronological bibliography of works on R.B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) by John Walker | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1978)
Asin: B0007AOHCA Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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)
list price: US$9.95 -- used & new: US$9.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B0007SB38S Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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5. The North American Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham | |
Hardcover: 160
Pages
(1987-11-30)
list price: US$29.95 -- used & new: US$3.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0817303553 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (1)
Savagery and humanity in the Texas-Mexico borderlands 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)
list price: US$19.95 -- used & new: US$13.40 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0810160366 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (3)
lots to learn from this book - and great fun to read
Wonderful escape into a past world
Wonderful escape into a past world |
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 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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