Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; age toning to page edges; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.

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Title: On the Contrary: Being the Life of a Famous Rebel, Soldier, Traveller, Explorer, Reader, Buidler, Scribe, Latinist, Lover and Liar
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London, England
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0436201496
ISBN 13: 9780436201493
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: British First.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped
Book Type: Book

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First US edition. The subtitle of this novel based on the explorer Estienne Barbier, who conned his way into an 18th c expedition in the Cape of Good Hope, is "being the life of a famous rebel, soldier, traveller, explorer, reader, builder, scribe, latinist, lover and liar."

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"On the surface On the Contrary is a picaresque historical novel, in which 18th century adventurer Estienne Barbier graduates from seducing French wives to South African widows via a long and bruising association with the Dutch East India Company. Underneath [it] is about today's South Africa and the dilemmas facing people challenging the status quo." - Sunday Telegraph

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