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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
Robert Hamill Nassau
309 pages~6 hr 10 min read80 chapters$4.99
In West African firelight, the animals talk, scheme, and teach: leopard hunts, rat outwits, and every tale carries a lesson. Robert Nassau gathers these folk stories where beasts stand in for human wit and folly. Lively and wise. Listen to the talking animals of West African tradition.
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Inside this book
80 chapters
- 1PREFACE
- 2PRONUNCIATION
- 3CONTENTS
- 4PART FIRST Mpongwe
- 5FOREWORD
- 6TALE 1 Do Not Trust Your Friend
- 7TALE 2 Leopard’s Hunting Camp
- 8TALE 3 Tests of Death—1st Version
- 9TALE 3 Tests of Death—Second Version
- 10TALE 4 Tasks Done for a Wife
- 11TALE 5 A Tug-of-War
- 12TALE 6 Agĕnda: Rat’s Play on a Name
- 13TALE 7 “Nuts Are Eaten Because of Angângwe”; A Proverb
- 14TALE 8 Who Are Crocodile’s Relatives?
- 15TALE 9 Who is King of Birds?
- 16TALE 10 “Njiwo Died of Sleep”: A Proverb
- 17TALE 11 Which is the Fattest?
- 18TALE 12 Why Mosquitoes Buzz
+ 62 more. The full contents open with the book.
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