| #1392786 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2013-03-05 | 2013-01-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .90 x5.60 x8.30l,.95 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| loved it!|By Terese Curri|Great book!||Reconstructing a little-known episode in Gandhi's life, Hofmeyr places surprising new findings about a particular historical figure in the service of a radically new theory of reading. This ambitious and deeply researched book holds lessons for historians, lit
At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi’s Printing Press is an account of how this project, an apparent footnote to a titanic career, shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Pioneering publisher, experimental editor, ethical anthologist―these roles reveal a Gandhi developi...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading | Isabel Hofmeyr. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
