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James Cowan

    April 9, 1942 – October 6, 2018
    Das Testament des Troubadours
    The Maori
    Kun-man-gur. The Rainbow Serpent.
    A Mapmaker’s Dream
    • Kun-man-gur. The Rainbow Serpent.

      • 31 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Follow the story of Kun-Man-Gur, the Rainbow Serpent as he helped his children the flying foxes when the world was new. How he chased away silly Kinbul the bat and the toadfish Ngar-in-gara because they were so rude to the flying foxes.To this day Kun-Man-Gur the Rainbow Serpent puts the hollow bamboo to his mouth and blows flying foxes all over the earth.

      Kun-man-gur. The Rainbow Serpent.2000
    • A Mapmaker’s Dream

      The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice

      • 151 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      When 15th-century Venetian cartographer and monk Fra Mauro sets out to create the definitive map of the world from his cell, he finds a yearning for truth, and the project becomes the adventure of a lifetime.

      A Mapmaker’s Dream1996
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