Meeting the Invisible Man: Travels and Magic in West Africa - Softcover

Green, Toby

 
9780753813478: Meeting the Invisible Man: Travels and Magic in West Africa
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753813475 ISBN 13: 9780753813478
Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Toby Green weaves a mystical narrative of lore and tradition as he searches for, and finds, the secret power of invisibility. Exploring the extraordinarily vibrant spiritual world which underlies the surface of West Africa, this book examines the conflict between the traditional and the modern in a region whose culture is a melting pot of local, Islamic, and European influences. Engaging the reader with themes as diverse as the histories of the slave trade and the kingdoms of West Africa, the invisible men of H.G. Wells and Ralph Ellison, Plato's simile of the cave and Marco Polo's observations about Zanzibar, the book is by turns mysterious, hilarious, beautiful, and troubling.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Toby Green graduated from Cambridge University in 1996, having obtained a First in Philosophy. He is the author of two previous books, Saddled with Darwin and Meeting the Invisible Man, and his work has been translated into six languages. He has travelled widely in Africa and Latin America, and now lives with his wife and their baby daughter in the West Country.

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Verlag
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753813475
ISBN 13 
9780753813478
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
317
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