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Small boys and sleeping dictionaries, bush camps and blackwater fever, mosquito-boots and mammy-chairs - TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT is a classic book which captures the vanished world of British colonial Africa through the vivid stories and recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there. 'A rich treasure-house of Empire' SPECTATOR

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Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.

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  • PublisherAbacus
  • Publication date1990
  • ISBN 10 0349104980
  • ISBN 13 9780349104980
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  • Number of pages200
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