![Item #4628] The Viceroy of Ouidah. Bruce Chatwin](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4628.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631743082)
New York, NY: Summit Books/ Simon & Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Viceroy of Ouidah begins with the reunion of the numerous descendants of Francisco Felix da Silva- a poor white Brazilian who, Bruce Chatwin tells us, "was by the 1830s the richest man in West Africa....He died a ruined man."...The Viceroy of Ouidah tells...of the man who became the "best friend" of the King of Dahomey, was..... More
[Item #4628]![Item #4601] The Viceroy of Ouidah. Bruce Chatwin](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4601.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630433522)
London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "In the early 1800s a Brazilian slave trader sailed to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, entered into a bizarre history of relations with its monarchs, acquired wealth and a position of outlandish influence but died a poor man. Bruce Chatwin's research into this curious story was abruptly thwarted when, on his second trip to Dahomey (by then called Benin), he..... More
[Item #4601]![Item #4663] On the Black Hill. Bruce Chatwin](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4663.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633628222)
London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "For eighty years Lewis and Benjamin Jones shared one life- ate the same food, wore the same clothes, slept in the same bed and swung an axe in the same trajectory. As boys they spoke in their own special language; by old age they had no need for words. One window of their farm, The Vision, looked out over the green..... More
[Item #4663]![Item #4710] On the Black Hill. Bruce Chatwin](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4710.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1635272166)
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1983. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Lewis and Benjamin Jones, identical twins, farm "The Vision," a property in the Welsh Borders, with the green fields of England on one side and the black hills of Wales on the other. Here they were born in 1900, and here for eighty years they share one life- eat the same food, sleep in the same bed, swing an..... More
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