An edition of Alek (1960)

Alek

From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel

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An edition of Alek (1960)

Alek

From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel

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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.

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Publisher
Amistad
Language
English
Pages
224

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Alek
Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
Aug 26, 2008, Harpercollins, Amistad Press, Amistad
in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
August 28, 2007, Amistad
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek
2007, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek: Sudanese refugee to international supermodel
2007, Virago
in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
August 28, 2007, Amistad
in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Alek
Alek: The Extraordinary Life of a Sudanese Refugee
1960, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English

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The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
224
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weight
12.8 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9244174M
ISBN 10
0061243310
ISBN 13
9780061243318
OCLC/WorldCat
166267327
Library Thing
3952408
Goodreads
1678369

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