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Martin Secker & Warburg Limited 1993. Ex Library book in excellent condition with Dust Jacket.
Secker & Warburg, London, 1993. First UK Edition. The novel has as its narrator a charming, treacherous, lecherous fantasist,Estienne Barbier, born in the Loire Valley in 1699. He deserts his preganant wife to stow away for the Cape of Good Hope. An expedition to the hinterland opens his eyes to the majesty fo the African landscape and its wonderous animals-elephant,camel. leopard,hippogriff and unicorn-and he is enchanted by romour of a fabled city of gold.