French Lessons In Africa
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* Peter Biddlecombe's popular French Lessons In Africa with a stylish new jacket. Having travelled across West Africa for over ten years, Peter Biddlecombe's often hilarious account of a long and lingering liaison dangereuse with the sixty per cent of the continent that is French-speaking is a highly readable, hugely entertaining introduction to the je ne sais quoi of French Africa.In countries such as Togo, Mali and Burkina Faso, Biddlecome encounters old-fashioned camel butchers, modern witch doctors who run mail-order companies, gold smugglers and counterfeiters who send their sons to Oxford. He also experiences a delicious foie gras of places: from eerie voodoo ceremonies in the old slave port of Ouidah to Italian ice-cream parlors in the middle of the Sahara desert.And Biddlecombe reveals not only Francophone Africa's politics, often bizarre business traditions and culture, but also provides a mass of practical advice on everything from how to eat a water-rat to talking your way through a road block in the middle of an attempted coup.
Specificaties
- Aantal pagina's
- 448
- Auteur
- Peter Biddlecombe
- Breedte (mm)
- 126
- Druk
- New ed
- Gewicht (g)
- 353
- Hoogte (mm)
- 25
- Lengte (mm)
- 198
- NUR-code
- 360
- Ondertitel
- Travels With My Briefcase Through French Africa
- Taal
- en
- Uitgever
- Abacus
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- Verschijningsjaar
- 1994
- ISBN
- 9780349105093
Artikelnummer: 9780349105093