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Michel the Giant de Tete-Michel Kpomassie

Michel the Giant

Autor Tete-Michel Kpomassie Traducere de James Kirkup, Ros Schwartz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2022
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 the Giant 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241554531
ISBN-10: 0241554535
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Tété-Michel Kpomassie was born in 1941 Togo, West Africa. His critically acclaimed travelogue, An African in Greenland, was awarded the Prix Littéraire Francophone International in 1981 and shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1983.

Recenzii

It is a long way in miles, but even longer in resilience, adventurous persistence and uncanny charm. . . . Kpomassie's book contains a catalogue of his impressions, combined with striking passages of fine writing. The result is the curious double perspective of a naïve visitor, combined with the controlled distance of a writer
Astonishing . . . Kpomassie insisted upon the full scope of his sometimes morally ambiguous humanity and, as all the best travel writers do, took us on two journeys: through what he saw but also how he felt, these inner and outer landscapes both richly and honestly detailed
A fascinating snapshot of Inuit culture and a reminder of the common threads that bind us all