Strathern Oona Compiler (1 results)

212 x 140 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. xii + 524, incl. index; photographs, maps and fact boxes. Fine condition. "Chinua Achebe on Nigeria, Graham Greene on Sierra Leone, Naguib Mahfouz on Cairo, William Boyd and Ernest Hemingway on Kilimanjaro The countries of Africa are brought to life in over 250 extracts by novelists, poets and travel writers, both African and from overseas. Extracted writers include Wole Soyinka, Bessie Head, Evelyn Waugh, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko, William Shakespeare, Doris Lessing, Bruce Chatwin, André Brink, Albert Camus, Buchi Emecheta, Gustave Flaubert, and many more. For each country, there is an accessible and informative introduction with constant reference to the literature, followed by extracts from novels, poems and short stories; biographical notes; concise summaries and reviews; and lists of recommended reading. Each of the 46 country chapters includes both famous and less well known writers - revealing a literary heritage as vast and varied as the continent itself.".…