African Lives: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor from Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond by Denis Boyles

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Grove Pr, 1988T. hardcover. Good. 1.1000 in x 9.4000 in x 6.1000 in.

New York, NY: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1988. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. 225 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. . previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. .

Grove Pr, 1988-08. Hardcover. Good.

Grove Pr. hardcover. Very Good. DJ included. Price clipped. Otherwise only minor surface wear to DJ. Sturdy copy in great condition.

New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Light edge wear and rubbing, interior is clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1988.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 1988 Weidenfeld & Nicolson. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has pale orange paper-covered boards with navy blue cloth-covered spine and gold spine lettering. Black and white plates. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends bumped. Shallow dent to the fore edge of the front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. 225 pages. Dust jacket has light edge and surface wear, with some wrinkling at corners and spine ends. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Grove Pr, 1988-08-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Minor shelf wear & foxing to binding, edges of text block & endpapers. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with small scuffs & foxing. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

New York. 1988. September 1988. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1555840345. 240 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. Jacket Photograph: Sir Henry Morton Stanley, The Bettmann Archive/BBC Hulton Picture Library. keywords: Africa Travel History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - African Lives offers a series of ebullient and evocative portraits of the ‘white tribe' In Africa: Westerners from General Gordon to Emin Pasha to Karen Blixen to the present crop of adventurers who have fallen under the spell of that Inexhaustible continent. It presents an Irreverent and original collection of characters, crises, and stories, amply demonstrating that the spirit of the great European adventurers of the past is still present among the fly-boys, missionaries, and knock-abouts of today. Moving back and forth through a hundred years, Denis Boyles, journalist. writer and himself one of the African enthusiasts of whom he treats, sketches portraits not only of some of… Read More

Grove Pr, 1988. First Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Like New, slight wear to cover.