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Through Black eyes;: Journeys of a Black artist to East Africa and Russia - Hardcover

FAX, Elton C.

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Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tears to dj, minor edgewear) Hardcover first edition - New York:: Dodd, Mead,, (1974). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tears to dj, minor edgewear). First printing. An account of Fax's trips first to African - to Uganda, Northern Sudan, Ethopia, Tanzania - and then to Moscow and the then Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. "In each of these exotic areas, so different in many respects, he was to find the history of oppression by colonialism, as it had occurred in similar ways among his own people at home. Everywhere he went the artist in Elton Fax recorded with beautiful drawings, even as the text did in words, what he saw with his own discerning eyes to produce a fascinating parts of the world." Illustrated with drawings by the author/artist. Index. x, 203 pp.

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