The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River
by Gramont, Sanche de
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Some edge soiling.
- ISBN 10
- 0395197821
- ISBN 13
- 9780395197820
- Seller
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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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- Seller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 60601
- Title
- The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River
- Author
- Gramont, Sanche de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Some edge soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BC mark but stated as First American edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395197821
- ISBN 13
- 9780395197820
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Baikie, Lord Bathurst, Sokoto, Borgu, Joseph Chamnberlain, Hugh Clapperton, Dixon Denham, Louis Faidherbe, George Goldie, Yoruba, Gordon Laign, Macgregor Laird, Richard Lander, Frederick Lugard, Walter Oudney, Mungo Park, Tchad, Timbuctu, Tuareg, War
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