This Was the Old Chief's Country by Doris Lessing

This Was the Old Chief's Country by Doris LessingAll Doris Lessing's short novels and stories are now collected into two volumes, This Was The Old Chef's Country and The Sun Between Their Feet. This volume contains all the stories from the original book entitled This Was The Old Chief's Country and three of the short novels from Five, the book which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1954.'I believe,' writes Doris Lessing, "that the chief gift from Africa to writers, white and black, is the continent

The affair is quickly consuming

and ultimately how the universe will end

an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction

And so Esme begins to collect words for another dictionary in secret: The Dictionary of Lost Words

Covering every main mountain range in the world

but also the world's fourth–highest per capita real income

the horrific circumstances of the Greek Interpreter and the curious mystery of the Musgrave Ritual among them - a criminal mastermind is plotting the downfall of the great detective

These are the questions that motivate bestselling writer Deepak Chopra to attempt a fresh re-imagining of a young man's transformational journey from carpenter's son to revolutionary leader to spiritual saviour

the most detestable woman he'd ever met

A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry

Notably the book shows the place of such 'nasal therapies' in India's great healing traditions and their broader relevance for treating common diseases

as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged