Elephant Complex by John Gimlette

Elephant Complex

John Gimlette

528 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history travel reflective slow-paced
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Each city raises the ghosts of old colonies: Portuguese, Dutch and British armies striving to claim the most significant ports in the southern seas; each site resurrects a civilization that preceded, and sometimes, outfaced them. The political fa...

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