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Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. (Fiction, Mystery, Suspense) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # NC01OS-00234
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. First THUS. Bargain book!. Seller Inventory # Z505405
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. 256 Seiten Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! DK120 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 136. Seller Inventory # 632824
Book Description New Edition. Condition: vg++. vg++ Arrow 1977 paperback 1st In stock shipped from our UK warehouse. Seller Inventory # 5089
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 256 pages. Cover worn.Reviews Sixty years after his mother, Betty Jackland, came from England to tribal, backwater, colonial Nigeria to marry his district-officer father, Ted arrives to make a documentary film based on her diary. Its pages recreate that t ime in detailthe life of an isolated woman in the overwhelmingly man's world of the British Empire; the ways of the resident Kitaw a and Hausa people; the ambiguities of ``indirect rule''; Betty's identification with native servants (including a houseboy who la ter rises to the rank of spiritual leader). Hovering over the sha dowy events of the past and over a present steeped in corruption and violence is a mysterious shaping event toward which the actio n moves. In 1921, in the shadow of Tefuga hill, the new emir sele cted by the British is killed by the Kitawa women. Given its clim actic significance, this act is strangely undramatizedoccurs, in fact, offstage. While prolific writer Dickinson (The House Party delivers a smoothly phrased, interesting narrative, it is somewha t marred by a sense of anticlimax and a profusion of pedestrian d etail. (April 21). Seller Inventory # 3271l
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback, reprint, 148gms, 258 pages. Book is in good condition with moderate age-related general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. Book has a sticker on the front wrap that if removed would tear the wrap, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Seller Inventory # CRIFIC329535