Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi (Paperback)

~ Annie Caulfield (Author)

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'This book is so memorable and enjoyable. It's very moving but also bloody funny. Buy it' Lenny Henry --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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An engaging, eccentric, and humourous travel book about a most inhospital country in Africa: Dahomey. This is a country where corruption is rife, where Catholicism shares a place with Voodoo, and where the north is Muslim, arid and tough and the south colourful, sophisticated and artistic. Here, the countryside ranges from pretty English rural, to arid sub-Sahara. All this and more is seen by Annie in the back seat of a taxi driven by control-freak Isidore.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Viking (April 25, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0670912115
• ISBN-13: 978-0670912117
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,476,598 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute Gem!, May 8, 2003

By	Xtine (Canada) - See all my reviews

Bill Bryson meets Freya Stark... what a precious book! Caulfield has this rare ability to inform and entertain all at once. Her delightful tongue-in-cheek humour, her keen eye for detail and thorough understanding of local affairs and politics is priceless. I laughed my head off. Very best female travel author I have read. Buy it!