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Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
by Jeffrey Tayler
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 061833467X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618334674
- Seller
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Champaign, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2005. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. Light soiling and shelfwear to DJ. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Textblock mildly foxed/soiled. A few pages very lightly soiled. Otherwise, pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.
Synopsis
Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth--the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the southern limit of Islam’s reach in West and Central Africa, boasts such mythologized places as Mopti and Timbuktu, as well as Africa’s poorest countries, Chad and Niger. In parts of the Sahel, hard-line Sharia law rules and slaves are still traded. Racked by lethal harmattan winds, chronic civil wars, and grim Islamic fundamentalism, it is not the ideal place for a traveler with a U.S. passport. Tayler finds genuine danger in many guises, from drunken soldiers to a thieving teenage mob. But he also encounters patience and generosity of a sort found only in Africa. Traveling overland by the same rickety means used by the local people--tottering, overfilled buses, bush taxis with holes in the floor, disgruntled camels--he uses his fluency in French and Arabic (the region’s lingua francas) to connect with them. Tayler is able to illuminate the roiling, enigmatic cultures of the Sahel as no other Western writer could.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jane Addams Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 223776
- Title
- Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
- Author
- Jeffrey Tayler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 061833467X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618334674
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- Date Published
- February 2005
- Pages
- 272
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jane Addams Book Shop
Biblio member since 2010
Champaign, Illinois
About Jane Addams Book Shop
We are a locally owned, independent bookstore that has been in business for more than twenty-five years. With more than 70,000 titles in our shop we have a number of very well-stocked sections that span fifteen separate rooms on three floors.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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