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...anti-British activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...
...MERCHANT or PRATO (422 pp.)-Iris Origo-Knopf...
...square of the city of Prato (pop. 30,586), a few miles outside Florence, stands the statue of a 14th century merchant dressed in flowing robes and holding a sheaf of bills of exchange. The merchant's name is Francesco di Marco Datini, and he is still Prato's favorite son. When he died, Datini left his whole fortune of 70,000 gold florins to the town's poor, along with his spacious house and all his papers. The interest on his capital is still shared out annually (about $1,100) among poor Pratese, but to those...
...those days a merchant often had to wait years before his expended capital came home with a profit. Because of slow transportation, storms, piracy and outbreaks of plague, trade and profit margins were so precarious as to give ulcers to the steeliest modern businessman. Many a modern businessman will, in fact, find a good deal of himself reflected in Datini. He lived in a state of constant, wretched anxiety-"so vexed with many matters," he groaned, "it is a wonder I am not out of my mind.'' When he slept, nightmares about a crumbling house destroyed his rest...
Sculptor Chaim Gross's father was a lumber merchant, and Chaim began his career, appropriately enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...