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Travels in the White Mans Grave Memoirs from West and Central Africa
by Donald MacIntosh
ISBN: 0349114358
ISBN-13: 9780349114354
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Little Brown Uk
Published date: 2001
Size: 5 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.45 pounds
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Travels in the White Man's Grave [Paperback]
Donald MacIntosh
An ex library first edition softcover copy with usual stamps and stickers. Different cover illustration. Minor edgeear. Clean text throughout, otherwise clean covers, sturdy body. ( more information)
Offered by THE WELL-WORN PAGE (United States)
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Travels in the White Man's Grave
MacIntosh, Donald
Little, Brown Book Group. Trade PaperBack. 0349114358 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. 2001 Little, Brown Book Group Trade PaperBack . Very Good. 2001. ( more information)
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Travels in the White Man's Grave
Donald MacIntosh
Little, Brown Book Group, 7/1/2001. Paperback. VERY GOOD. UNREAD - Ex- library with usual markings, NO shelf wear/creasing!--Buy with confidence - Satisfaction guaranteed! ( more information)
Offered by Burnsy's Books (United States)
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Travels in the White Man's Grave: Memoirs from West and Central Africa
Macintosh, Donald.:
London; Abacus, 2001.. F. Paperback, 245 pages. Foreward by Richard Ingrams. Fine condition . The author spent 30 years in the rainforests of West Africa. During this time he lived with an astonishing heterogeneity of tribes, from the Krahn hunters of Liberia to the pygmies of West Central Africa.. ( more information)
Offered by Books with Care (United Kingdom)
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TRAVELS IN THE WHITE MAN'S GRAVE
MacIntosh, Donald
London, Abacus (2001). Reprint. "Memoirs from West and Central Africa." 245 pages. Softcover, near new but for owner name. ISBN 0349114358 . ISBN: 0349114358. ( more information)
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Travels in the White Man's Grave (Qty: 5)
Donald MacIntosh
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Travels in the White Mans Grave Memoirs from West and Central Africa (Qty: 3)
MACINTOSH, DONALD
TIME WARNER BOOKS, 2001. NEW ED. Brand new. At the beginning of the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known to most of the outside world a 'The White Man's Grave', and there were still large parts where its forests were primeval. But to Macintosh it was a dream come true when ( more information)
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