Africa
Subtitle: A Biography of the Continent
Edition: 1st American ed edition
Publisher: Knopf
Published: April 14, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780679409793
Subjects: Africa - History; History - General History; History: World; Africa - General; History / Africa; Africa; History
First sentence: "Where Africa meets the ocean at its southernmost point, the sea has a tumbling, disorganized aspect, altogether lacking the orderly progression of swells that would seem proper where a large expanse of the south Atlantic first strikes land."