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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55597126 Title: Blue clay people : seasons on Africa's fragile edge Author: William Powers Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005. ISBN/ISSN: 1582345325 9781582345321 1582346445 9781582346441 OCLC:55597126

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Blue clay people : seasons on Africa's fragile edge

Author:	William Powers
Publisher:	New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Describes the experiences of an aid worker living and working in Liberia, a country torn apart by war, arms trafficking, diamond smuggling, ecological destruction, and the spread of AIDS.
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Subjects	Powers, William, -- 1971- Liberia -- Social conditions -- 1980- Americans -- Liberia -- Biography. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biography Autobiographies
Named Person:	William Powers; William Powers
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	William Powers Find more information about:
ISBN:	1582345325 9781582345321 1582346445 9781582346441
OCLC Number:	55597126
Description:	292 pages : map ; 22 cm
Contents:	Prologue: In the beginning, God sneezed -- Rainy season: bossman Missy -- Dry season: bushmeat -- Burning season: kind of blue -- Warring season: a garden of trees.
Responsibility:	William D. Powers.
More information:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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Describes the experiences of an aid worker living and working in Liberia, a country torn apart by war, arms trafficking, diamond smuggling, ecological destruction, and the spread of AIDS.

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