Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century

by Charles Allen (Author), Charles Allen (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.26

  Small boys and sleeping dictionaries, bush camps and blackwater fever, mosquito-boots and mammy-chairs - TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT is a classic book which captures the vanished world of British colonial Africa through the vivid stories and recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there. 'A rich treasure-house of Empire' SPECTATOR