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The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River
by Gramont, Sanche De
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395252245
- ISBN 13
- 9780395252246
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Title page dated 1977. Remarkably well kept softcover, 350 pages. Looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. True adventure about the explorers who tried, found and opened to the world the full length and origin of the mysterious Niger River of West Africa. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
From the cover: “They crossed impossible deserts. They were assaulted by thieves and left for dead. They went mad. They murdered. They starved. Allies in a hard and lonely mission, they quarrelled and accused each other of homosexuality, living in separate tents and communicating by letter. They ran out of water and drank their own blood to stay alive.The Strong Brown God is the true story of a handful of obsessed explorers who fought man and nature to find and open the mighty, mysterious Niger River as little as one hundred years ago. “A magnificent book”, raved the San Francisco Examiner when Houghton Mifflin first published it in 1976. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanche de Gramont has written an epic history with a racing pulse - a history that makes the same lasting impression on the reader that it made on the fate of West Africa.”
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040827
- Title
- The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River
- Author
- Gramont, Sanche De
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395252245
- ISBN 13
- 9780395252246
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1977
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NIGER RIVER WEST AFRICA HISTORY TRIPOLI SENEGAMBIA BAMBARA GUINEA SIERRA LEONE LIBERIA GURMA HAUSA YAURI SILLA GUINEA
- Bookseller catalogs
- World History, World Wars and Militaria; Travel & Exploration, International Culture;
Terms of Sale
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East Granby, Connecticut
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