About this title: This collection of thirty-eight impressionist episodes describes a white man's friendship with a group of Ashanti tribes people from the Gold Coast of Africa (the former British colony known today as Ghana), who in 1896 were put on display as living objects in a popular ethnographic exhibit in the Vienna Zoological Garden, then still located in Vienna's famous amusement park called Prater. The exhibit caused a veritable "Ashanti fever" as the show attracted five to six thousand visitors per day. Altenberg, barely disguised as Ashantee's autobiographical character Sir Peter, shows a genuine ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ariadne Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781572411555ISBN:1572411554
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