BARLEY, Nigel The Innocent Anthropologist. Notes from a Mud Hut. [London], Colonnade Books, 1983.
8vo. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in the original pictorial dust-wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. 189; with illustrations in the text throughout; slight sunning to spine and top edges of boards of wrapper; a few light marks to boards of wrapper; internally bright and clean, a near fine copy.
First edition. 'Barley’s first book, The Innocent Anthropologist, published in 1983, was a witty and informative account of fieldwork amongst the Dowayo people of Cameroon. On its publication, the Daily Telegraph wrote of him: He does for anthropology what Gerald Durrell did for animal-collecting' (David Higham Associates, online).
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