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Dans la Florence du XIVe siècle, un riche marchand prend la plume pour raconter ses années au pouvoir dans la commune déchirée entre Guelfes noirs et Guelfes blancs. À Sienne, une certaine Catherine fait vœu de chasteté à l’âge de six ans. À Orléans un siècle plus tard, Jeanne assiste au procès qui la conduira au bûcher… Six vies, six portraits esquissés avec tout l’art d’Alessandro Barbero, et nous voilà au cœur du Moyen Âge. Qui étaient ces hommes et ces femmes ? Quelles étaient leurs peurs, leurs ambitions ? De quelles vies rêvaient-ils ? Il paraît loin, le temps des prophéties, des ordres religieux, des processions, des preux chevaliers, des croisades, des femmes au rouet et des apparitions ! Pourtant, il suffit de six coups de pinceaux pour qu’il se rapproche et revive sous nos yeux.

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Sir Richard Burton was best known as an intrepid explorer with a voracious appetite for adventure who penetrated the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina and was the first European to discover and identify the African Great Lake Tanganyika, the second largest - and deepest - body of fresh water in the world. But he was also a geographer, writer, soldier, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. Here, in this essay by award-winning historian Fawn M. Brodie, is his extraordinary story.

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This book is a son’s tribute to his father, delivered to readers after the death of both. As Jack Kagetsu laboured for a decade on his manuscript, travelling to archives, combing newspaper articles, and organizing his findings as well as his memories into writing, he must have felt that he was discovering parts of himself as well as his father. It is a very personal history. The book also has communal resonance for Japanese Canadians. It reflects reverence for elders and speaks to the accomplishments and losses of a generation of immigrant founders, the Issei. In the case of Eikichi Kagetsu both accomplishment and loss were of staggering proportions; perhaps no one else built so much, only to see it stolen in the mid-twentieth century odyssey of Japanese Canadians.

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