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AFRICAN LIVES: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip and Rumblings of Rumor
by Boyles, Denis
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1555840345
- ISBN 13
- 9781555840341
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Weidenfeld & Nicholson., 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AFRICAN LIVES offers a series of ebullient and evocative portraits of the "white tribe" in Africa: Westerners from General Gordon to Emin Pasha to Karen Blixen to the present crop of adventurers who have fallen under the spell of that inexhaustible continent. It presents an irreverent and original collection of characters, crises, and stories, amply demonstrating that the spirit of the great European adventurers of the past is still present among the fly-boys, missionaries, and knockabouts of today. Moving back and forth through a hundred years, Denis Boyles, journalist, writer, and himself one of the African enthusiasts of whom he treats, sketches portraits not only of some of the great personalities of the past--Rhodes, Lugard, Markham--but of such colorful, more contemporary figures as Patrick Shaw, a police official in Nairobi; George Pappas, a self-made millionaire pilot in Kinshasa; and Ian Smith, the ex-prime minister of Rhodesia. Provocative, informed, humorous, and invariably entertaining, AFRICAN LIVES is what the author calls a "pre-ideological" examination of a vivid and fascinating part of African history. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. N33
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4892
- Title
- AFRICAN LIVES: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip and Rumblings of Rumor
- Author
- Boyles, Denis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1555840345
- ISBN 13
- 9781555840341
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- AFRICA CIVILIZATION BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY GENERAL HISTORY General, General, General, Typography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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