Encountering Adamastor
Author | : W.S. Barnard |
Publisher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781928357285 |
ISBN-13 | : 1928357288 |
Rating | : 4/5 (288 Downloads) |
Download or read book Encountering Adamastor written by W.S. Barnard and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume of W.S. Barnard is a first in a series of life-histories of the founding geographers in South Africa published by the Centre of Geographical Analysis at Stellenbosch University. Life-histories are reported in five ways: the commendation lauds the winner of an award; the obituary by necessity speaks well of the dead; the brief entry in a dictionary or encyclopedia is highly stylized and constrained by editorial guidelines; in the autobiography the author tells his own story in his own way; and, finally, the biography comes in a range of formats and structures. At the one extreme is the complete life-history, written by a specialist following the historiographical method and based on the critical assessment of primary sources; at the other is the belletristic overview: descriptive, anecdotal, facile and artful.