Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.
"When Boipelo Seku learns about a man who traded his way from a paperclip to a house, he starts a trade of his own in his small village of Cedarville, South Africa, accidentally setting in motion a string of good deeds that will change his community forever"--Provided by publisher.
On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.
After Sam tricks Amos into swapping a prize-winning gourd for a smelly old bearhide, Amos decides to give Sam a taste of his own medicine by negotiating an even more worthless trade.
Currency is a fact of human life, and this book explores its genesis, beginning with those early coins and precious objects and tracing their legacy to the banknotes and fraud-detecting devices of the twenty-first century.
In this humorous adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, "lucky" Hans Pumpernickel takes the gold brick which is his payment for seven years of work and heads home, but finding it too heavy to carry he trades it for a horse--and through a series of encounters and trades he ultimately ends up with nothing at all, but remains convinced that he is the luckiest man alive.
Presents the classic novel by nineteenth-century British author Joseph Conrad about Marlow, an adventurer and seaman and his physical and psychological journey into Africa where he witnesses the brutality of the natives by white traders.
