On the Contrary : A Novel: Being the Life of a Famous Rebel, Soldier, Traveller, Explorer, Reader, Builder, Scribe, Latinist, Lover, and Liar. This item is unavailable.
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Language: English
Published by Penguin Random House, 1993
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- Title
- On the Contrary : A Novel: Being the Life of a Famous Rebel, Soldier, Traveller, Explorer, Reader, Builder, Scribe, Latinist, Lover, and Liar
- Author
- Brink, Andre
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0436201496
- ISBN 13
- 9780436201493
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
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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