The Atlantic Sound is a travel book that is also a passionate argument with history: a personal quest to explore and fully understand the painful, ongoing legacy of the Atlantic slave trade. Phillips cruises through the Caribbean, observing everywhere the patronage of the United States. He explores Liverpool, constructed on the slave trade, now denying that history; Elmina in Ghana, site of a slave fort, now a tourist spot for black Americans; and Charleston in the American South, where one-third of black Americans were ...
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The Atlantic Sound is a travel book that is also a passionate argument with history: a personal quest to explore and fully understand the painful, ongoing legacy of the Atlantic slave trade. Phillips cruises through the Caribbean, observing everywhere the patronage of the United States. He explores Liverpool, constructed on the slave trade, now denying that history; Elmina in Ghana, site of a slave fort, now a tourist spot for black Americans; and Charleston in the American South, where one-third of black Americans were bought and sold. And Phillips retraces the journey he made to England from the Caribbean, as a child in 1958.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered yellow at the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0571196209 Pages: 352 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Book 0571196209 First edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Not inscribed, price clipped or otherwise marked. Securely wrapped, dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Full # line starting with a 1.
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New. Book Cloth. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BRAND NEW BOOK--IN PRINT AT $28. Caryl Phillips explores the complex notion of what constitutes 'home'. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic slave trade, he undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with the dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. First printing with full numberline. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ in mylar sleeve. A copy in fine condition. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
