Owen Stanley

The Missionaries

Buch

The Missionaries is a story of the collision of three cultures. A brilliant tale of ineptitude, self-righteousness, and human folly, it combines the mordant wit of W. Somerset Maugham with a sense of humor reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse.When Dr. Sydney Prout is named the head of the United Nations mission to Elephant Island, he believes he is more than ready to meet the challenge of guiding its primitive inhabitants into the post-Colonial era, and eventually, full independence. But neither his many academic credentials nor the Journal of Race Relations have prepared Dr. Prout to reckon with the unrepentant bloody-mindedness of the natives, or… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-952-7065-93-8
EAN: 9789527065938
Produktnummer: 21799972
Verlag: Museum Of Contemporary Art Kia
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 206 S.
Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.4 cm 399 g
Gewicht: 399

Über den Autor

Owen Stanley is an Australian explorer, a philosopher, and a poet who speaks seven languages. He is at much at home in the remote jungles of the South Pacific as flying his Staudacher aerobatic plane, deep-sea diving, or translating the complete works of Charles Darwin into Tok Pisin.