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The Book: Hanka, passionate exile / Amber & Turquoise Books | Hanka Kawecka | Michael Lee
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Hanka, passionate exile. Hanka, passionate exile. Takes form of a literary hybrid: a composition that contains elements of reportage or at some points even a report, an essay, a personal journal enriched with social or social and psychological or even political and economic analyses. Sometimes she remains helpless while confronting complicated reality and this is when she concludes her analyses with queries. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes".
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The Book: Hanka, passionate exile / Amber & Turquoise Books | Hanka Kawecka | Michael Lee
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On rereading [her articles], it strikes me more than ever what an extraordinary voice Hanka had. Like Nabokov and Conrad before her, she seems to have intuitively felt the poetry of the English language. There's both an immediacy and a timelessness to her writing. I feel that I am with her, inside her senses as she experiences [somewhere new], seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling, touching the place. ELLEN EMERSON, PUBLISHER. The piece on Mbarara, for example, says more about Africa and an understanding of...
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The Book: Hanka, passionate exile / Amber & Turquoise Books | Hanka Kawecka | Michael Lee
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Long brown hair with a flower tucked behind her ear, sparkling eyes, shy smile, welcoming hands reaching out to stroke my hair.’. Hanka Kawecka Lee was born in Kraków, Poland in 1943 and was educated there at the Jagiellonian University, from where she obtained a PhD. Trained as a zoologist and by instinct a mountaineer, she chose to become an environmentalist working for wildlife conservation organisations in Kenya and Thailand. She married Michael in 1969, with whom she was to co-author. The scorpion a...
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The Book: Just Matata – Sin, Saints and Settlers, Braz Menezes / Amber & Turquoise Books | Hanka Kawecka | Michael Lee
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Just Matata Sin, Saints and Settlers. Roland Francis, Toronto. See also www.matatatrilogy.com.
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The Book: Hanka, passionate exile / Amber & Turquoise Books | Hanka Kawecka | Michael Lee
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Living on the edge. The magic of Africa. I was going back home when a man behind the fence spoke suddenly, ‘Could I have this plant? His voice made me jump. ‘What plant? AN ACT OF DISCRIMINATION.
