Duncan Fallowell

Beyond Timbuktu

Michel Leiris’s unforgettable account of travelling the breadth of Africa in the 1930s is finally available in English

  • Phantom Africa

    Michel Leiris, translated by Brent Hayes Edwards

    Seagull Books, pp. 711

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