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By the rivers of water : a nineteenth-century Atlantic odyssey /
In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up gr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I, Starting places. A slave's world
- Many mansions
- A Black River home
- A place seen from afar. Part II, Journey to a West African cape. Testing the waters
- Fair hope among the Grebo
- Beneath an African sky
- Sorrows and conflicts
- The bitter cost of freedom
- Exploring strange worlds
- The conversion of William Davis (Mworeh Mah)
- Rose-tinted glasses
- "The liberty of choosing for themselves." Part III, Life among the Mpongwe. Toko and the waterwitch
- A sophisticated, hospitable, and heathen people
- Rainforest lessons
- The French : "the most dishonest and shameless people"
- Home visit
- "He worships with sincere devotion the customs of his ancestors." Part IV, Homeward journey. An unsought and unexpected appointment
- A patriot's choice
- Civil war
- Home ground
- Distant voices.