The Child of an Ancient People Tapa blanda - 2003

Harvill, UK, 2000. Medium Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Medium Trade Paperback. 245 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harvill, UK, 2000. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. Tanned pages. Clear, self-adhesive laminate to covers/boards. Light soiling to edges. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Deported to New Caledonia in 1872, Lislei, an Alsatian woman rescued from the turmoil of the Paris Commune, and Kader, an Arab prince, succeed in escaping aboard a ship bound for Australia. With them is an orphan boy, the last representative of his people, the Tasmanian Aboriginals. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; historical; ISBN: 1843430533. ISBN/EAN: 9781843430537. Inventory No: 12072075.. 9781843430537

The Harvill Press, London, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. VI, 246 pages, last page blank. Colour photographic front cover, with white and green titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear book panel. " Three contemporaneous calamities, in Africa, Europe and Australia, form the historical background to Anouar Benmalek's masterful reconstruction of the political and social upheavals of the 19th century." -- from the rear panel blurb. This book ranges from time and place with a background of the Paris Commune fiasco, an Arab prince from the Sahara and British colonial expansion in Australia and of the extermination of the Tasmanian Aboriginal race. Translated from the French by Andrew Riemer. Rubbing and creasing to the book corners and a little browning of the text block edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity… Leer más