A Kind of Homecoming

A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
A Kind of Homecoming
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Title: A Kind of Homecoming
Author(s): BRAITHWAITE, E R
Category: Biographies
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1963
Published By: Frederick Muller
Pages: 268
Size (mm): 140 w x 220 h x 25 d

Condition

Excellent original condition. Minor wear and fading on the cover, inscription inside front cover, some spotting but pages generally in immaculate condition. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernised black man who journeys to Africa in search of his roots and discovers a vibrant and extraordinary society on the verge of monumental change.

E. R. Braithwaite’s A Kind of Homecoming is at once an enthralling personal journey and an eye-opening chronicle of a time of great change on the African continent that helps us to better understand the West Africa of today.

In the early 1960s acclaimed British Guianese author E. R. Braithwaite embarked on a pilgrimage to the West African countries of Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and across Sierra Leone just as the emerging nation was preparing to declare its independence. What Braithwaite discovered was a world vastly different from the staid, firmly established British society in which he had spent most of his life. In a place as foreign to him as the dark side of the moon, he was overcome by colorful sights, sounds, and smells that vividly reawakened lost memories from his childhood. Entering the intimate circles of the local intelligentsia, Braithwaite was able to view these newly evolving African societies from the inside, struck by their mixtures of passion and naïveté, their political obsessions and technological indifference. The author discovered a world that fascinated, excited, and, in some cases, deeply troubled him—and in the process he discovered himself.

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