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Can I read Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics on EtoBox?
Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics by Alexander Frater is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics about?
Part memoir, part travelogue, Tales from the Torrid Zone is rooted in Alex Frater's birthplace, the tiny tropical republic of Vanuatu where his father ran its hospital and his mother, in her front garden, built its first school. From this obscure South Seas group he ranges over the hot, wet, beautiful swathe of the world that has haunted him ever since: he dines with a tropical queen in a leper colony, makes his way across tropical Africa (and two civil wars) in a 44-year-old flying boat, delive
Who reads Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alexander Frater
- Publisher
- Pan MacMillan
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780330375283
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Anthropology, History, Travel
- Rating
- 3.33 / 5 (89 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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