The forger's tale :: the search for Odeziaku /

Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local popul...

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1. Verfasser: Newell, Stephanie, 1968-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2006.
Schriftenreihe:New African histories series.
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Zusammenfassung:Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forger''s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) as he traveled from the slums of Manchester to West Africa in order to escape the hom.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
ISBN:9780821442302
0821442309
0821417096
9780821417096
082141710X
9780821417102