The Coast

Barley, Nigel

A comic novel of an English missionary on the Niger coast during the 19th century, beginning 'The very ground seemed to exhale moisture'; signed by the author, an Oxford-educated anthropologist, whose observations on people are underpinned by professional fieldwork, language training and research.

Publisher: Viking. First English edition 1990
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Fine in dustwrapper.


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