Fortunes of Africa A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

Name: Fortunes of Africa A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
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ISBN: 9781610394598

ISBN-10: 1610394593

ISBN-13: 9781610394598

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Authors: Martin Meredith

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Legends of Africa’s wealthit’s gold, ivory, diamonds and slaveshave endured for millennia, drawing in pillaging explorers and conquerors to its shores from afar. In this magisterial prequel to The Fate of Africa, Martin Meredith lavishly recounts the history of a continent whose richness in natural resources has made it a victim of ruthless plunderersboth foreign and domestic.Meredith’s Africa radiates mystery from every cliff. The fertile soils now marked by the borders of the Sierra Leone promised diamonds to Western colonizers in the nineteenth century. So did the ivory, used in everything from piano keys to billiard balls and jewelry, which led to the emergence of powerful crime…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 10/14/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 784
Size: 6.58" wide x 9.19" long x 2.29" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English