In Conrad’s Footsteps: Critical Approaches to Africanist Travel Writing

Literature Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 924-939

  Burroughs, Robert ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84897349718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17414113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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