Author

Publication

2000 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

42,500 words, Guess

Page Count

170 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100226099555
  • ISBN-139780226099552
  • Goodreads572800
  • Library of Congress Control Number00029931
  • OCLC Control Number43684629
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780226099552
  • Open LibraryOL6781843M

Classifications

  • DDC916.604/33
  • LCCDT551.27 .C4513 2000
  • LCCDT551.27.C4513 2000

Description

"In 1997 the celebrated Italian novelist and essayist Gianni Celati accompanied his friend, filmmaker Jean Talon, on a journey to West Africa which took them from Mali to Senegal and Mauritania. The two had been hoping to research a documentary about Dogon priests, but frustrated by red tape, their voyage became instead a touristic adventure. The vulnerable, prickly, insightful Celati kept notebooks of the journey, now translated by Adria Bernardi and introduced by Rebecca West as Adventures in Africa. Celati is the privileged traveler, overwhelmed by customs he doesn't understand, always at the mercy of others who are trying to sell him something he doesn't want to buy, and aware of himself as the Tourist who is always a little disoriented and at the center of the continual misadventures that are at the heart of travel."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

TravelSenegalJourneysDescription and travelMali -- Description and travelAfrica, description and travelSenegal -- Description and travel

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