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Author:
Butcher, Tim, 1967-
Title:
Chasing the devil : a journey through sub-Saharan Africa in the footsteps of Graham Greene / Tim Butcher.
Publisher:
Atlas & Co. Publishers,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
325 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Butcher, Tim,--1967---Travel--Liberia.
Butcher, Tim,--1967---Travel--Sierra Leone.
Greene, Graham,--1904-1991--Travel--Liberia.
Sierra Leone--Description and travel.
Liberia--Description and travel.
Butcher, Tim,--1967---Travel.
Greene, Graham,--1904-1991--Travel.
Greene, Graham--1904-1991.--Journey without maps.
Liberia--Description and travel.
Notes:
First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus as Chasing the devil : the search for Africa's fighting spirit. Includes bibliographical references (p. 309) and index.
Contents:
A stone in my shoe -- Province of freedom -- Looking for Bruno -- No provocation to anger -- Peace garden -- Falloe's stick -- Message in a bottle -- Screams in the jungle -- Guinea worm -- The cry of the bull-roarer -- Daventry calling -- The Devil's last dance.
Summary:
Tim Butcher follows Graham Greene's footsteps into Liberia where he encounters masked sorcerers whose magical powers depend on cannibalism and long forgotten missionaries.
ISBN:
1935633295 (hc.)
9781935633297 (hc.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)750482441
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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