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Darkest England Book

Nineteenth-century British explorers are lampooned in this reverse travelogue by South African novelist Christopher Hope. A contemporary South African Bushman, David Mungo Booi, chronicles his exploration of the wilds of England en route to meet the queen. Wanting to collect on a promise made by the queen's great-great-grandmother to protect his people, David encounters the worst of British society upon entering the pastoral country: racist customs officials who imprison him, a picturesque town whose residents are bent on lynching him, and a big-game hunter who wants to add him to his private reserve of African "endangered specimens." Only in the end does he find compassion, and in the strangest of places.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A satire on England today. Taking an orphaned South African bushman as his David Livingstone character, the author transposes him to England where English follies and absurdities are only too apparent. The novel surveys some institutions, such as the class system, the press, and Parliament.

  • 0330327801
  • 9780330327800
  • Christopher Hope
  • 22 August 1997
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
  • New edition
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