Stories of the Gorilla Country
This is a classic study of West African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies. The author spent more than five years living among the tribes of Africa, closely observing their customs, culture, and their interactions with the surrounding wildlife. His accounts of native cannibalism, witchcraft, torture, slavery-and the existence of gorillas, till then only hinted at in a fifth century BC Carthaginian script-led many Europeans and Americans to dispute Du Chaillu's veracity. All his observatio…
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- ISBN: 978-1-389-44155-4
- EAN: 9781389441554
- Produktnummer: 24936620
- Verlag: Blurb
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.6 cm 484 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 484
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