Set in Kenya during the Mau Mau period, 'The Leopard' focuses on the relationship between Blacks and Whites. This is done through the collision, in the African bush, of three people: Nebu, a black, Bwana Gibson, a white, and Toto, a 'grey'.
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Set in Kenya during the Mau Mau period, 'The Leopard' focuses on the relationship between Blacks and Whites. This is done through the collision, in the African bush, of three people: Nebu, a black, Bwana Gibson, a white, and Toto, a 'grey'.
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New York. 1971. Collier. 1st Collier Books Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Introduction by Gregory Rigsby. Collier African /American Library. 157 pages. paperback. 5336. keywords: Literature Jamaica Caribbean Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘Beneath its animism and naked emotion, this book speaks eloquently of the ways of men to one another. '-New York Herald Tribune Book Review. In Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion a black warrior, Nebu, sets out to track down and kill a white man, Bwana Gibson. Gibson's wife had been Nebu's mistress. When she admitted bearing a crippled half-breed son, her husband killed her and fled, half-mad, into the African jungle. In pursuing his master and oppressor, Nebu, with a mortal wound in his side, finds himself pursued-by the leopard, waiting to pounce at the first opportunity. From these elements of brutality and terror the author, with a blend of singing lyricism and earthy realism, has evoked a haunting vision of a man confronting evil at its dangerous level-in the depths of his own soul. VICTOR STAFFORD REID, a native of Jamaica, was a correspondent for the London Daily Express. For his first novel, New Day, he received the Musgrave Silver Medal as an outstanding Jamaican in the arts. inventory #7656.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book. Sm8vo. Smaller hardback with an unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket has moderate edgewear with a small missing chip on front-bottom, but is now protected in a new archival-quality, Mylar plastic cover. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.
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185p pages: his second novel, a powerful story of a half Kikuyu, half Masai who hunts a white man to death in the Kenya forests but then is hunted in turn by the leopard; hardback, vg almost vg dw (sl browned to top of rear panel), dw is designed by Ralph Thompson.
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New York. 1958. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 159 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Roberta Moynihan. keywords: Literature Jamaica Caribbean Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER-This is a strange, magical tale of the haunted and the hunted-the story of a double chase: a black man's pursuit of a white man with whom he has been deeply involved and who is now quite mad, and a leopard's pursuit of the black man. Written by a West Indian, The Leopard evokes the mystery, the beauty, and the terror of the African jungle and its human and animal inhabitants. The story is told from the point of view of a Kikuyu of Kenya, so that it is totally unlike any other book dealing with the tangled relationships between the natives and the white settlers of that troubled land. What gives this exciting story its haunting quality is the spirit of primitive animism that informs it. Part of the magic of the book comes from the combination of almost lyric prose with the earthy and realistic presentation of its scenes and characters. Part of the magic remains undefinable. It is a book that totally captures the imagination, and no one can put it down without a feeling of sympathy and admiration for its tragic hero, an outlaw who could have been nothing save what he is. inventory #6271.
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Very Good. 185pp. Fiction set in Kenya, by the well-known Jamaican writer. Nebu, half Kikuyu, half Maasai, tracks down a white settler, while he himself is tracked by a leopard. Written at the time of Mau Mau, themes of which run through the novel. O42.
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First Collier Books edition. Introduction by Gregory Rigsby. Small paperback. Condition: very good (spine slightly sunned). --"A haunting tale of a Mau Mau's pursuit of his white victim as he is himself hunted by a leopard."--Author (1913-87) was Jamaican novelist, short-story writer.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. First edition. Octavo. 159pp. Gift Inscription on half-title, likely from Canadian author Harry L. Symons and his wife Dorothy, textblock bound in a bit irregularly, just about near fine in worn and toned, good only dust jacket clipped at all four corners, with soiling on the lower panel and an internal tape reinforcement at the crown. Jamaican author's second novel.
