By Bruce Chatwin
During this shiny, strong novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a negative Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to alternate for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his desires, and shortly he's the Viceroy of Ouidah, grasp of all slave buying and selling in Dahomey. however the ghastly company of slave buying and selling and the open savagery of existence in Dahomey slowly eat Manoel's wealth and sanity.
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