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Bay of Tigers: An Odyssey through War-torn Angola
por Mendes, Pedro Rosa
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- Condição
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151006555
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006557
- Livreiro
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Sinopse
In 1997, Pedro Rosa Mendes traveled across Africa--6,000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique--on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles. In war-torn Angola, a country where land mines outnumber people, Mendes found long lines of villagers waiting for shock treatment to neutralize the phantom pain in amputated limbs, an apothecary's tent purveying boiled mucumbi bark to combat scurvy lesions in the mouth, and trains crowded with people eating salted fish and drinking beer, swapping tales of local sorcerers who can turn into snakes. He interviewed international relief workers and corrupt local officials, widows and orphans, soldiers and survivors, piecing together a rich portrait no history or travel book can match.
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- Livreiro
- Wonder Book
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- Y11I-00216
- Título
- Bay of Tigers: An Odyssey through War-torn Angola
- Autor
- Mendes, Pedro Rosa
- Estado do livro
- Used - Very Good
- Encadernação
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151006555
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006557
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Local de publicação
- Orlando
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2003-05-01
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