Bay of tigers
Subtitle: an African Odyssey
By: Pedro Rosa Mendes ; translated from the Portuguese by Clifford  Landers.
Contributors: Landers, Clifford E.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: War victims -- Angola.; Angola -- History -- Civil War, 1975- -- Social aspects.; Angola -- Description and travel.
Description: "In 1997, Pedro Rosa Mendes traveled across Africa - 6,000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique - on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles."

"In this war-torn region where land mines outnumber people, Mendes found long lines of villagers waiting for shock treatment to neutralize the phantom pain in amputated limbs, an apothecary's tent purveying boiled mucumbi bark to combat scurvy lesions in the mouth, and trains crowded with people eating salted fish and drinking beer, swapping tales of local sorcerers who can turn into snakes. He interviewed international relief workers and corrupt local officials, widows and orphans, soldiers and survivors, piecing together a rich, authentic portrait no history or travel book can match."--Jacket.
Notes: Translation of: Baía dos tigres. 1. ed. 1999.
Map on lining papers.