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Back to the Congo
de Joris, Lieve
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- ISBN 10
- 0333543696
- ISBN 13
- 9780333543696
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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(London: Macmillan, 1987) 0333543696. Translated by Stacey Knecht. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. (vi) +231. Dustwrapper lightly sunned on spine panel; front free endpaper removed; earlier owner's name signed on half-title; trace of foxing and browning. Good. "Fascinated from childhood by the enigmatic figure of her uncle, a Catholic missionary in Africa who returned only for short leaves bearing unfamiliar presents, Lieve Joris set out on board the Fabiolaville to the former Belgian Congo, the modern Zaïre of the ubiquitous President Mobutu. The author describes equally vividly the remnants of Zaïre's colonial past, the mission stations and the white expatriate community - many of whom ignore as far as possible the country in which they live - and the realities of modern Zaïre. From the chaos of Kinshasa to the remote villages of the interior, she falls for the charm of the inhabitants while laying bare the corruption endemic in the system." .
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- Librería
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 12355
- Título
- Back to the Congo
- Autor
- Joris, Lieve
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- ISBN 10
- 0333543696
- ISBN 13
- 9780333543696
- Editorial
- (London: Macmillan, 1987) 0333543696
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1992
- Palabras clave
- Congo. Postcolonial Africa. Travel writing Travel
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel;
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