Africa : a Biography of the Continent - Hardcover

Reader, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679409793 ISBN 13: 9780679409793

Verlag: Non Basic Stock Line, 1998

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A panoramic, illustrated history of Africa from the dawn of human history to the end of apartheid charts the rise and fall of its civilizations, its complex history of slavery, its struggle with colonialism, and its great diversity. 30,000 first printing.

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meval cataclysms that formed the continent to the civil wars and genocide that ravage it today--a work of startling grandeur and scope that provides a remarkable panoramic history of Africa, by a deeply intelligent writer who has spent most of his adult life there.

We all originated in Africa, and no matter what our race, our most ancient relationship is with that continent. Reader tells the story of our earliest ancestors' adaptation to Africa's ferocious obstacles of jungle, river, and desert, and of how its unique array of animals, plants, viruses, and parasites has over millions of years helped and hindered human progress to a degree unknown anywhere else on Earth.

Illustrated with many of the author's own beautiful photographs, which capture the staggering diversity of human experience in every part of the continent--from the inland estuaries of the Niger and the rain forests of the Equator, to the deserts of the north and the high veld of the south--this book weaves tog

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• Verlag: Non Basic Stock Line
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679409793
• ISBN 13: 9780679409793
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 801