Author: Green, Tony.
Title: Meeting the Invisible Man. Secrets and Magic in West Africa.
Description: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London 2001. Plum cloth boards 290pp illustrated 8vo. No inscriptions, 4 square corners, a Fine unread copy in dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780297646150 Author blends travel writing and investigations into the unbelievable when visiting Casamance, Guinea-Conackry & Guinea-Bissau in search of those who claim invisibility, meanwhile dealing with matters as diverse as histories of the slave trade, Plato's simile of the cave, and Marco Polo's observations on Zanzibar.

Keywords: anthropology west africa travel casamance guinea-conackry guinea-bissau marco polo zanzibar


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