Tarab : Travels with my Guitar

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleves, Carl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cleves, Carl.

Musicians--Australia--Biography.

Travelers--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Cleves, Carl.

Musicians--Australia--Biography.

Travelers--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Transit Lounge, 2014.

Summary:

From the Sudan to Northern New South Wales, Tarab is an epic, mesmerising tale of high adventure and the search for meaning. Carl Cleves escapes national service in Belgium to live in South Africa at the height of the apartheid era. So begin the adventures and quests, wanderings and narrow escapes, mishaps and illuminations of a guitar-toting troubadour in his roles as young beat poet, law student, single father, relief worker in India and recording star in Brazil. Cleves's page turning memoir is no simple music biography, but rather the travel story of an artist's quest for tarab: a place whe

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 1. A Shotgun Wedding; 2. Tarab; 3. The King of the Orient; 4. Bush-babies; 5. Penkele; 6. The Healing Rock; 7. A Little Trip to Heaven; 8. Crohn's Disease; 9. The Transformation of Bradley; 10. To Coroico; 11. Happy Birthday; 12. The Castle; 13. African Lion; 14. The Hat; 15.The Faith Healer; 16. Fire; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Discography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781921924637

1921924632

OCLC:

870228652