African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan (Hardcover)

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Open this book and enter into a richly detailed landscape and an exotic society. Follow Hoagland's travels, from equatorial mountain forests to the Sahara desert; from small Sudanese towns in the south and west to short stays in the capital, Khartoum. Hoagland's eye for detail presents the reader with electrifying images of life in the Sudan - rotten diets, disease, coups and civil war, the traders, poachers, tribal headmen, and those who come to help. (6 X 9, 256 pages, maps) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Open this book and enter into a richly detailed landscape and an exotic society. Follow Hoagland's travels, from equatorial mountain forests to the Sahara desert; from small Sudanese towns in the south and west to short stays in the capital, Khartoum. Hoagland's eye for detail presents the reader with electrifying images of life in the Sudan - rotten diets, disease, coups and civil war, the traders, poachers, tribal headmen, and those who come to help. (6 X 9, 256 pages, maps)
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 239 pages
• Publisher: Random House Inc (T); 1 edition (August 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394504186
• ISBN-13: 978-0394504186
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,625,118 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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