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	Catch A Fire: The Life of Bob Marley - Timothy White Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had - and continues to have - a massive impact on people of throughout the world. Catch A Fire chronicles his life and career as well as the milieu that shaped his spiritual and political beliefs. This edition is revised and expanded, including a comprehensive discography and new material on reggae in Jamaican society. Publisher: Omnibus Press ISBN: 0711983909 Published: 2000 Paperback: 556 pages Price: £14.95


	The Rough Guide to Reggae This expanded and updated third edition of The Rough Guide to Reggae tells the extraordinary story of recorded music in Jamaica, from folk traditions and 1950s mento through to dancehall and bashment, giving you the lowdown on ska, rocksteady, roots, dub, ragga and lovers' rock, as well as reggae's offshoots around the globe. The book focuses on the singers and DJs, the equally important producers and session musicians, and the sound systems. Throughout, there are interviews and features on the major artists, and reviews of hundreds of discs on CD and vinyl. Extensive illustrations include images by top photographers Adrian Boot and David Corio, plus classic record covers and ephemera. The authors, Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, have been involved in the music for more than twenty years. Steve runs the highly acclaimed Blood and Fire reissue label; Peter is an avid collector and has worked as a columnist for Dub Catcher magazine. Publisher: Rough Guides ISBN: 1843533294 Published: 2004 Paperback: 484 pages Price: £15.99


	World Music (vol. 2) - Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific The Rough Guide to World Music was published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference source. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book - hence World Music 2: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific - on everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to the Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Publisher: Rough Guides ISBN: 1858286360 Published: 2000 Paperback: 720 pages Price: £17.99


	Derek Walcott - Collected Poems 1948-1984 A collection of poems by Derek Walcott, whose subject is the panorama of life, landscape, culture and politics of the West Indies. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1992 Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571162916 Published: 1992 Paperback: 528 pages Price: £14.99


	V. S. Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novels, A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. Heartrending and darkly comic, A House for Mr Biswas masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad. V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Publisher: Picador ISBN: 0330487191 Published: 2003 Paperback Price: £7.99


	Christopher Columbus - The Four Voyages 'The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land...He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it.' No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is revealed as a fascinating and contradictory figure, fluctuating from awed enthusiasm to paranoia and eccentric geographical speculation. Prey to petty quarrels with his officers, his pious desire to bring Christian civilization to 'savages', matched by his rapacity for gold, Columbus was nonetheless an explorer and seaman of staggering vision and achievement. J. M. Cohen has skilfully woven together Columbus's logbooks and letters, the biography by his son Hernando, the official history by Oviedo, and the letters of the fleet physician and a loyal lieutenant, and the result is a unique contemporary record of a great adventure as it unfolds. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0140442170 Published: 1992 Paperback: 320 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £9.99

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