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Phantom Africa / Michel Leiris ; translated by Brent Hayes Edwards

Leiris, Michel, 1901-1990 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Edwards, Brent Hayes [Übersetzung]

Calcutta ; London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2017

711 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Französisch)

Translated from the French

978-0-85742-377-1 (hbk. : £42.00); 0-85742-377-0

GBB713883

OCoLC: 1001462850     

OCoLC: 1001462850 (aus SWB)     

MS 9350  | LB 18465      Ähnliche Literatur

DT351

916.704316092 ; 916.7043092

* Leiris, Michel [1901-1990] ; Tagebuch ; Quelle      Zum Register

*Afrika ; Quelle      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Leiris, Michel 1901-1990 -- Diaries ; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Description and travel ; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Civilization -- 20th century ; Leiris, Michel -- 1901-1990 -- Travel -- Africa, Central ; Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography ; French -- Africa, Central -- History -- 20th century ; Africa, Central -- Description and travel

One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man’s compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal—by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose—as well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to visit sub-Saharan Africa.