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 great rivers and followed ancient paths. Along the way they encountered not only many diverse landscapes, peoples, and cultures, but also many individuals on their own odysseys -- including Paul Sansay, a former slave from Savannah; Mworeh Mah, a brilliant Grebo leader, and his beautiful daughter, Mary Clealand, at Cape Palmas; and King Glass and the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-465-03769-8
- EAN: 9780465037698
- Produktnummer: 22911497
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 488 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'863 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Erskine Clarke is Professor Emeritus of American Religious History at Columbia Theological Seminary and author of Dwelling Place, Wrestlin' Jacob, and Our Southern Zion. The recipient of Columbia University's Bancroft Prize for Dwelling Place, as well as many other awards, he has served as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, and has lectured at Yale University, the University of Virginia, Wesley Theological Seminary, and Queens College, University of London.
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