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On the contrary : a novel : being the life of a famous rebel, soldier, traveller, explorer, reader, builder, scribe, Latinist, lover, and liar / André Brink.
LIBRA PR9369.3.B7 O5 1993 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French.
- History.
- South Africa--History--To 1836--Fiction.
- South Africa.
- French--South Africa--Fiction.
- Revolutionaries--Fiction.
- Revolutionaries.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Picaresque fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Picaresque literature.
- Adventure fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 375 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, [1993]
- Summary:
- While awaiting execution, Etienne Barbier, an 18th century French adventurer, recounts his attempt to lead a revolt of Afrikaners against the colonial elite. A trek across the social and political landscape of early South Africa. By the author of An act of terror.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0316108847
- 9780316108843
- OCLC:
- 29844130
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