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The Missionaries

Norman Lewis

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English
Eland
01 May 2013
Intended to be the concluding trilogy of a series of autobiographical books (beginning with Voices of the Old Sea and Jackdaw Cake) but instead was transmuted into a deeply searing examination of the extermination of indigenous tribes by North American fundamentalist missionaries. It is all the more powerful, in that it is the distillation of a lifetime of accidental observation on the ground by one of the greatest travel writers in the English language setting off to record, with admiration the superior culture achieved by many of these peoples. 

About the Author

Norman Lewis is Britain's greatest living travel writer, with a list of some 10 travel books and several books of collected journalism to his name. However Lewis regards his greatest achievement to have been the reaction to his article Genocide in Brazil, published in The Sunday Times in 1968. It led to a change in Brazilian law relating to the treatment of the Indians and to the formation of Survival International which fights for the survival of indigenous peoples everywhere. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Imprint:   Eland
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   310g
ISBN:   9781906011529
ISBN 10:   1906011524
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Missionaries

'... a scathing and ironic indictment of which a Voltaire or a Swift might be proud ...' Sunday Times '... compulsive, deeply upsetting and unforgettable.' Financial Times '... one of the best writers, not of any particular decade, but of our century.' Graham Green, Daily Telegraph 'Norman Lewis is a writer of unusual anthropological sensibility ...' London Review of Books


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