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.
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September 1996 : Hardback
| Title: Darkest England Author(s): Christopher Hope ISBN: 0-393-04040-2 / 978-0-393-04040-1 (USA edition) Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1996 : Hardback
| Title: Darkest England Author(s): Christopher Hope ISBN: 0-333-59580-7 / 978-0-333-59580-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1996 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
August 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Darkest England Author(s): Christopher Hope ISBN: 1-84887-165-1 / 9781848871656 (UK edition) Publisher: Atlantic Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1997 : Paperback
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1997 : Paperback
| Title: Darkest England Author(s): Christopher Hope ISBN: 0-316-37773-2 / 978-0-316-37773-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Little, Brown Company Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
November 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Darkest England (A-Format) Author(s): Hope Christopher ISBN: 0-330-34917-1 / 978-0-330-34917-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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