Meeting the Invisible Man: Secrets and Magic in West Africa - Hardcover

 
9780297646150: Meeting the Invisible Man: Secrets and Magic in West Africa
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 029764615X ISBN 13: 9780297646150
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Toby Green weaves a mystical narrative of lore and tradition as he searches for, and finds, the secret power of invisibility. Exploring the extraordinarily vibrant spiritual world which underlies the surface of West Africa, this book examines the conflict between the traditional and the modern in a region whose culture is a melting pot of local, Islamic, and European influences. Engaging the reader with themes as diverse as the histories of the slave trade and the kingdoms of West Africa, the invisible men of H.G. Wells and Ralph Ellison, Plato's simile of the cave and Marco Polo's observations about Zanzibar, the book is by turns mysterious, hilarious, beautiful, and troubling.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Toby Green was born in 1974. Before publishing his first book, Saddled With Darwin, he worked as a teacher, charity fundraiser and literary agent. Widely travelled in Africa and Latin America, he is also a Fellow od the Royal geagraphic Society, and has written for many of the national broadsheets and various other publications. He now lives in Gloucestershire.

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Verlag
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
029764615X
ISBN 13 
9780297646150
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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