The Missionaries - Brossura

Stanley, Owen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9527065941 ISBN 13: 9789527065945

Casa editrice: Castalia House, 2016

Riassunto

The Missionaries is a story of the collision of three cultures. A brilliant tale of ineptitude, self-righteousness, and human folly, it combines the mordant wit of W. Somerset Maugham with a sense of humor reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse.

When Dr. Sydney Prout is named the head of the United Nations mission to Elephant Island, he believes he is more than ready to meet the challenge of guiding its primitive inhabitants into the post-Colonial era, and eventually, full independence. But neither his many academic credentials nor the Journal of Race Relations have prepared Dr. Prout to reckon with the unrepentant bloody-mindedness of the natives, or anticipate the inventive ways their tribal philosophers will incorporate the most unlikely aspects of modern civilization into their religious lore and traditional way of life.

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Recensione

A former island outpost of the British Empire is to transition from rule by old-school colonial officials to independence. A group of idealistic, but hopelessly naive UN administrators come to the island to administer the change in government. Hilarity ensues due to clashes of culture and worldviews. This is the book Douglas Adams would have written if he had been a Peace Corps volunteer.

L'autore

Owen Stanley is an Australian explorer, a philosopher, and a poet who speaks seven languages. He is at much at home in the remote jungles of the South Pacific as flying his Staudacher aerobatic plane, deep-sea diving, or translating the complete works of Charles Darwin into Tok Pisin.

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• Editore: Castalia House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9527065941
• ISBN 13: 9789527065945
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206