Bay of Tigers An African Odyssey

Name: Bay of Tigers An African Odyssey
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ISBN: 9780151006557

ISBN-10: 0151006555

ISBN-13: 9780151006557

Edition: 2003

Authors: Pedro Rosa Mendes, Clifford Landers

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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…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Pedro Rosa Mendes is a Portuguese journalist and writer. His dispatches from Zaire, Angola, Rwanda, and Afghanistan have earned him widespread renown in Europe. Bay of Tigers is his first book.



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