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The Resource Alek : the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee, Alek Wek, (ebook)
Alek : the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee, Alek Wek, (ebook)
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The item Alek : the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee, Alek Wek, (ebook) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Alek : the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee, Alek Wek, (ebook) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When she's not the featured model in print campaigns for hip companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the runways of Paris, New York, and Milan to model for the world's leading designers, including Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. But nothing in her early years prepared her for the life of a model. Born in Wau, in the southern Sudan, Alek knew only a few years of peace with her family before they were caught up in a ruthless civil war that pitted outlaw militias, the Muslim-dominated government, and southern rebels against each other in a brutal conflict that killed nearly two million people. Here is her daring story of fleeing the war on foot and her escape to London, where her rise from young model to supermodel was all the more notable because of Alek's non-European looks. A probe into the Sudanese conflict and an inside look into the life of a most unique supermodel, Alek is a book that will inspire as well as inform
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9780061857447
- Label
- Alek : the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee
- Title
- Alek
- Title remainder
- the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee
- Statement of responsibility
- Alek Wek
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When she's not the featured model in print campaigns for hip companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the runways of Paris, New York, and Milan to model for the world's leading designers, including Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. But nothing in her early years prepared her for the life of a model. Born in Wau, in the southern Sudan, Alek knew only a few years of peace with her family before they were caught up in a ruthless civil war that pitted outlaw militias, the Muslim-dominated government, and southern rebels against each other in a brutal conflict that killed nearly two million people. Here is her daring story of fleeing the war on foot and her escape to London, where her rise from young model to supermodel was all the more notable because of Alek's non-European looks. A probe into the Sudanese conflict and an inside look into the life of a most unique supermodel, Alek is a book that will inspire as well as inform
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wek, Alek
- Dewey number
- 746.92092
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- Wek, Alek
- Models (Persons)
- Models (Persons)
- Dinka (African people)
- Electronic books
- Sudan
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Alek : the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee, Alek Wek, (ebook)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780061857447
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11919971
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11919971
- System control number
- MWT11919971
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Alek : the extraordinary life of a Sudanese refugee, Alek Wek, (ebook)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780061857447
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11919971
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11919971
- System control number
- MWT11919971
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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