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Harmattan

Hardcover • 2015 • English

Harmattan

By Michael Jackson

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About the book

We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds. Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it means to be buffeted by the unforeseen and the unknown. Celebrating the life-giving potential of peop...Show more

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ISBN

9780231172349

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Harmattan

Format

Hardcover

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