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A Plague of Caterpillars

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

A Plague of Caterpillars

By Nigel Barley

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About the book

This very failure, compounded by the plague of caterpillars of the book s title allows Nigel Barley to concentrate on everyday life in Dowayoland and the tattered remnants of an overripe French colonial legacy. Witchcraft fills the Cameroonian air; add an earnest German traveller showing explicit birth?control propaganda to the respectable Dowayos, an interest in the nipple?mutilating practices of highlanders, unanswered questions of the link between infertility and circumcision and you have the...Show more

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ISBN

9781780601519

Publisher

Eland Publishing Ltd

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

A Plague of Caterpillars

Format

Paperback

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