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University of Chicago Press, 2008. hardcover. Very Good/None. 6x1x9. Clean, solid copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Stray green pencil mark on bottom of closed page edges. Light bump to back bottom cover corner. Black cloth cover has mild surface wear. Binding is tight and square. Lacking dust jacket. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation.
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Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination Hardcover - 2007
by Richard Price
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- Title Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
- Author Richard Price
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date December 15, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226680583 / 0226680584
- Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 8.85 x 6.38 x 1.14 in (22.48 x 16.21 x 2.90 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Alexander, Tooy, Saramacca (Surinamese people)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007011573
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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New. Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, "Travels with Tooy" recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals. Included on the itinerary for this hallucinatory expedition: forays into the eighteenth century to talk with slaves newly arrived from Africa; leaps into the midst of battles against colonial armies; close encounters with double agents and femme fatale forest spirits; and trips underwater to speak to the comely sea gods who control the world's money supply. This enchanting book draws on Price's…
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