Foreigners: Three English Lives
Artikelnummer:
9780099488859
Veröffentlichungsdatum:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.09.2008
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Caryl Phillips
Gewicht:
193 g
Format:
200x129x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Langbeschreibung
Presents the stories of Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson; Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer; and, David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice.
Hauptbeschreibung
Presents the stories of Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson; Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer; and, David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice.