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23%OFFTété-Michel Kpomassie - Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland - 9780241554531 - 9780241554531
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Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

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Description for Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland Paperback.

The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tété-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession - he was determined to journey to the place these pages had revealed to him and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.

A book of rich and immersive travel writing, Michel ... Read more invites the reader to journey alongside an audacious Kpomassie as he makes his way from the equator to the bitter cold of the artic and settles into life with the Inuit peoples, adapting to their foods and customs. Part memoir, part anthropological observation this captivating narrative teems with nuanced observations on community, belonging and the universality of human experience.

This title has been previously published as An African in Greenland

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241554531
SKU
9780241554531
Shipping Time
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About Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Tété-Michel Kpomassie was born in 1941, in Togo West Africa. When it was first published, his critically acclaimed travelogue, Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland, was awarded the Prix Littéraire Francophone International and shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

Reviews for Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
Remarkable . . . skilful storytelling . . . intrepidly adventurous and unconventional . . . couldn't be more relevant. The kinship he felt with the Inuit on that first visit saw the publication of a literary work that was well ahead of its time.
Michael Segalov
Observer
Fearless reverse ethnology . . . gorgeous descriptions ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland


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