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Photographs assembled and mounted to create a panoramic view of the shoreline from Mahone Bay to Mader's Cover

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 9
File
[20--?]

File contains 13 photographs that have been cut and mounted onto five sheets of board to create a panoramic view of the shoreline from Mahone Bay to Mader's Cove. The photographs are numbered on the front with felt pen.

Two photographs assembled to create a view of schooners moored in front of the Marine Museum in London, UK

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 10
File
[20--?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Six book ideas by Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 11
File
[20--?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains six book ideas in various levels of detail, including: Aimery Picaud and the Route to Compostella; The Moon Book; Marginalia (the gap between the enfranchised and the disenfranchised in America): Many a Wild Dance (profiles of female explorers); Kingdom (the last remaining true monarchies); and The Very Worst Things That Can Happen.

Photographs of tribal African jewelery

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 6
File
[20--?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

And he begat / Marq de Villiers : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 3, Folder 4
File
[197-?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an unpublished fiction manuscript.

Water : back to the well : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folders 6 and 7
File
[2014?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Sunday Times literary awards commemorative edition 1989-2014

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 4
File
2014

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a book containing an entry for Marq de Villier's White Tribe Dreaming, which won the inaugural Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 1989.

Hell and damnation : a user's guide to eternal torment : proposal by Marq de Villiers : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 7
File
2013

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a memo from Marq de Villiers to Shaun Bradley.

Photographs of Marq de Villiers in the academic robes worn for the receipt of his honorary degree from Dalhousie University

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 8
File
October 2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photographs include one taken with President Tom Traves and Chancellor Fred Fountain, and one with his wife Sheila Hirtle.

Publishing agreements

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 5
File
2011, 2013

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a publishing agreement with Goose Lane for a book provisionally called Floating Currency (later published as Back to the Well); a memorandum of agreement with China Renmin University Press for Our Way Out; and an agreement amendment with McClelland & Stewart regarding Water, A Dune Adrift and Windswept.

Publicity and reviews for Our Way Out: First Principles for a Post-Apocalyptic World

MS-2-825, Box 11, Folder 3
File
2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Dalhousie University 2011 convocation address on the occasion of the conferring an LLD on Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 14
File
2011

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Our way out : principles for a post-apocalyptic world : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folders 1 and 2
File
[2011?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes marked-up manuscript and pages of editorial notes.

Publicity and reviews for Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 7
File
2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 7
File
2008 - 2009

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 3
File
2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding rights for Heartbreak Grape and Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 5
File
2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Manuscripts excerpts, notes and and correspondence re. Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 5
File
2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 2
File
2006 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence re. permissions for Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 15
File
2006 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Witch in the Wind

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 8
File
2006 - 2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Outline, manuscripts drafts and correspondence re. Timbuktu

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 4
File
2005 - 2006

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes early manuscript drafts, outlines, research and editorial notes, production correspondence and a travel itinerary.

Timbuktu : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 7, Folder 3
File
[2005?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Photographs for Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

MS-2-825, Box 12, Folder 8
File
2005

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Windswept : a documentary / Marq de Villiers : [television scripts]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 10
File
[2004?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains three script treatments, including visuals and narration.

Publicity and readers' correspondence regarding Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 7
File
2004 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 1
File
2004 - 2005

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Operation Noah's Ark : a rite of a different passage / a treatment written by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 12
File
2003

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a treatment written for Oracle Television Productions, South Africa, and Alta Nova Pictures, Canada, for a one-hour documentary, as well as related correspondence and background materials.

Reviews for Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 6
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Where the horses run : the story of Sable island, a dune adrift in the Atlantic / by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 2
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a revised, edited manuscript, editorial notes, and correspondence from Jacqueline Johnson, non-fiction editor at Walker Books.

Genealogical research and correspondence re. a revised version or television production of Blood Traitors

MS-2-825, Box 9, Folder 2
File
2002 - 2008

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File also contains two pages of notes respectively dated 1998 and 2001.

Reviews and press releases for Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 1, Folder 6
File
2002 - 2203

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes correspondence from MacClelland & Stewart reporting on the publicity campaign.

Correspondence regarding a research trip to Sable Island by Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 9
File
2002

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Notes for a book on Sable Island

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 4
File
[2002?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an annotated 20-page manuscript, a chapter breakdown and handwritten notes.

Correspondence regarding Sable Island by Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 3
File
2001 - 2003

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Saraha : a natural history of the greatest desert on earth / by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 3
File
December 2001

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains pages 1-213 of the manuscript.

Early manuscript excerpts of Sahara and Sheila Hirtle's reader's notes for Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 5
File
[2001?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Water : solutions and manifestos : adapted from the book Water by Marq de Villiers / Larry J. Bauman : [script]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 13
File
2001

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a treatment for episode 3 of 3.

Manuscript drafts of part 1, chapters 1-8, Sahara: A Natural History

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 4
File
[2001?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 4
File
1999 - 2007

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

MS-2-825, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1999 - 2000

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains materials removed intact from a binder created and maintained by the donor.

Into Africa : a television journey through the ancient empires of the sun : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 15
File
1997

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Into Africa : a brief encapsulation and list of contents : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 14
File
1997

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes six pages of questions and answers regarding the manuscript and its author.

Publicity and reviews for Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1997 - 1998

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Part IV : the Gulf of Guinea : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 9
File
1996

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a manuscript chapter, with penciled editorial notes, from Into Africa, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, as well as a page with some suggested cuts.

Magazine and newspaper clippings of article, reviews and columns written by Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 8
File
1996 - 2013

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Publicity and reviews for Blood Traitors: The True Saga of Families Torn Apart by the Struggle for Independence in Revolutionary North America

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Part VI : the Maghreb and the Barbary Shore : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 8
File
[1996?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a manuscript chapter, with penciled editorial notes, from Into Africa, by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle.

Correspondence from Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle to Bruce Westward re. book ideas

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 8
File
1996, 1999

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes a two-page outline of "The Food Book: An engaged history of food."

Into Africa : [manuscripts]

MS-2-825, Box 6, Folder 6
File
1995

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File includes two versions of a book outline, including chapter breakdowns and notes about the authors, as well notes on potential lists. sidebars and areas of research interest.

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