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The heretic of Cacheu: struggles over life in a seventeenth-century West African port
by Toby Green
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A unique, startling text that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago.
- Genres
- History
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN
- 9781802061581
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