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The Collector of Treasures and other Botswana Village Tales / Bessie Head.
LIBRA - Rare PR9369.3.H4 C65 1988 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Head, Bessie, 1937-1986.
- Series:
- African writers series ; 182.
- African writers series ; 182
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- Botswana--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Botswana.
- Botswana--Rural conditions--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, x, 109 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- [1988 reprint].
- Place of Publication:
- London : Heinemann, 1988.
- Contents:
- The Deep River: A Story of Ancient Tribal Migration
- Heaven is not Closed
- The Village Saint
- Jacob: The Story of a Faith-Healing Priest
- Life
- Witchcraft
- Looking for a Rain God
- Kgotla
- The Wind and a Boy
- Snapshots of a Wedding
- The Special One
- The Collector of Treasures
- Hunting.
- Notes:
- "First published in African Writers Series 1977. Reprinted 1982, 1983, 1986 (twice), 1988."
- Publisher's advertisements: [4] pages at end.
- "Cover photograph by George Hallett."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0435901826
- OCLC:
- 1112464947
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