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Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
by Carolyn Slaughter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0385603444
- ISBN 13
- 9780385603447
- Seller
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Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$8.96$6.72
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About This Item
Doubleday, 2002-03-04. Hardcover. Like New. 2.5888 cent in x 21.7766 cent in x 13.9848 cent in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post
Synopsis
Carolyn Slaughter was born in New Delhi, India, and spent most of her childhood in the Kalahari Desert of what is now Botswana. Soon after leaving Africa in 1961, she wrote what would later become her highly acclaimed novel Dreams of the Kalahari . She followed this with eight more novels. After living for many years in London, she moved to the United States with her family in 1986.
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- Bookseller
- The Guru Bookshop Ltd, Green Warehouse
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000027034
- Title
- Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
- Author
- Carolyn Slaughter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385603444
- ISBN 13
- 9780385603447
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2002-03-04
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- Size
- 2.5888 cent in x 21.7766 cent in x 13.9848 cent in
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The Guru Bookshop Ltd, Green Warehouse
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About the Seller
The Guru Bookshop Ltd, Green Warehouse
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Hereford, Herefordshire
About The Guru Bookshop Ltd, Green Warehouse
The Guru Bookshop is a UK based eclectic bookseller dealing in all genres especially first editions in travel, biography poetry, Military History, Theology and Indian books on spirituality
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