Michel the Giant

Michel the Giant
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780141999425
ISBN-13 : 014199942X
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Book Synopsis Michel the Giant by : Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Download or read book Michel the Giant written by Tété-Michel Kpomassie and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tété-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession - he was determined to journey to the place these pages had revealed to him and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. A book of rich and immersive travel writing, Michel the Giant invites the reader to journey alongside an audacious Kpomassie as he makes his way from the equator to the bitter cold of the artic and settles into life with the Inuit peoples, adapting to their foods and customs. Part memoir, part anthropological observation this captivating narrative teems with nuanced observations on community, belonging and the universality of human experience. This title has been previously published as An African in Greenland


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