The Viceroy of Ouidah
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Bruce Chatwin
The Viceroy of Ouidah
New York: Summit Books, 1980.
First printing.
This is an ingeniously conceived history of what is now Benin, seen through the port of Dahomey, once the fiefdom of a white Brazilian slave-trader called da Silva.
In his second book, Chatwin vividly sketches the bizarre mix of peoples and beliefs that that came together to allow the grisly reality of the slave trade, in the early nineteenth century.
Fine in fine dust-jacket.
Hardcover.