Dancing with the Dead: Journey Through Zanzibar and Madagascar
by Drysdale, Helena Pomery, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0241129540
- ISBN 13
- 9780241129548
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. 1.3.5.7.9.10.8.6.4.2.* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: Hamish Hamilton.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal spine lean. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo-cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Slight shelf wear to top edge and flap folds. Spine slightly faded and with some scratches. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with very light reading wear, no marks to text, minimal page colouration to page margins. VG+* Illustrations: B/w line drawn maps & one block of 16pp. colour photos.* Pages: 269 pp. text. x pp. Glossasry, appendices & blank pages at rear.* Description: Helena Drysdale was leaving for Madagascar when family papers revealed that her ancestors traded there during the 19th century. There were hints of piracy and slave trading. Madagascar was not their only haunt. There was also Zanzibar with its plump sultans and the Comoro Islands. Helena and her photographer husband, Richard Pomery, set off to follow in their wake and find any lingering family connections. The story is an exploration not only of the wilder parts of these Indian Ocean Islands, of their culture and history, but also of our relationship with our ancestors.* A NEAR FINE copy with very slight shelf and reading wear reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 838
- Title
- Dancing with the Dead: Journey Through Zanzibar and Madagascar
- Author
- Drysdale, Helena Pomery, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0241129540
- ISBN 13
- 9780241129548
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 256
- This edition first published
- 1991
- Size
- 22.4 x 14 x 3 cm
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