The Female American: Unca Eliza Winkfield, is a re-edition of an anonymous proto-novel published in 1767, in a new edition edited by Michele Burnham. Super interesting novel about a “mixed” early American, daughter of native American princess and son of governor of Virginia (it is fiction). She ends up abandoned on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe-style. hijinks and adventure. A bizarre mix by contemporary standards. But if Gulliver’s Travels was your model… Lots of great insights into social relations during those times.
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Séance de jeudi récréatif à la bibliothèque communale de Karaba
- Mise à jour des ordinateurs du Centre Multimédia de Houndé
- Séance de lecture à haute voix à l’école de Lokihoun
- Reading FAVL-produced books in Koho library, Burkina Faso!
- Librarian meeting in Sumbrungu, Ghana
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Don de jeu de scrabble au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba
- Immersion à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho
- Organisation d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Koumbia
- Visite d’une équipe de ABVBF à la Semaine Nationale de la Culture