Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings
Subtitle: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
Published: July 7, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781850439783
Subjects: Biographies & Memoirs; History -- World; Nonfiction -- Politics -- International -- Diplomacy; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Political Science
First sentence: Outside the half-open door, the night noises of Africa grew more insistent as the light died - the bulbous croaking of frogs in the swamp below; the ratchet noise of crickets in the forest trees; and over at the back of the township where the elephant grass began, a hyena laughed its maniac's chuckle over an old bone or a newly dead dog.