Tales From the Dark Continent - Softcover
Based on recorded interviews with 50 British men and women covering three generations of colonial rule in Africa, the stories and recollections in this book evoke the world of traders, missionaries, soldiers, policemen and district officers.
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Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.
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- PublisherWarner Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0349104980
- ISBN 13 9780349104980
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Book Description Soft Cover Full Gloss. Condition: As New. No Jacket. ### TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century 1996 ### ## THIS BOOK: Classified: AS NEW: This is the 1996 edition, originally published by the BBC in 1979 and reprinted in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985,1986, 1990, 19i91 and 1992. First published by Abacus in 1995 and reprinted in 1996. There is no bumping or foxing. A fascinating read and recommended ## ## TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT: Small boys and sleeping dictionaries, bush camps and blackwater fever, mosquito boots and mammy-chairs ? the vanished world of British Colonial Africa captured in the vivid stories and recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there.## ## 'The individual's devotion to his little corner of Africa is as heart-warming as anything from India.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ## #### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. Please get in touch for a shipping quotation. ####. No Author signature. Seller Inventory # MMNF-344-nonfict
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