Lois
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Tim Butcher:
Tim, as a Librarian, I am still recommending your book "The Trigger.." and just had someone come back and say she loved it! I am anxiously awaiting your next book. When will it be published?
Tim Butcher
Tim, as a Librarian, I am still recommending your book "The Trigger.." and just had someone come back and say she loved it! I am anxiously awaiting your next book. When will it be published?
In Africa we have a tradition of `praise singers’, those who walk before warming up the crowd and telling them of the virtues of the person about to appear. It tends to be for chiefs and such luminaries but this author will gratefully accept your `praise singing’. Thank you for the support.
I am wrestling with my current book, a personal account of nationhood and an exploration of patriotism and chauvinism. The League of Nations is about to mark its centenary and that date has inspired me to unravel how the nation came to dominate our thinking space, our political discourse, our whole sense of identity.
I have two other books already published which you might mention to your inquirer: Blood River and Chasing the Devil.
With thanks and best wishes, TimB
In Africa we have a tradition of `praise singers’, those who walk before warming up the crowd and telling them of the virtues of the person about to appear. It tends to be for chiefs and such luminaries but this author will gratefully accept your `praise singing’. Thank you for the support.
I am wrestling with my current book, a personal account of nationhood and an exploration of patriotism and chauvinism. The League of Nations is about to mark its centenary and that date has inspired me to unravel how the nation came to dominate our thinking space, our political discourse, our whole sense of identity.
I have two other books already published which you might mention to your inquirer: Blood River and Chasing the Devil.
With thanks and best wishes, TimB
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Brad Patton
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Tim Butcher:
Tim: Just for you information. Chasing The Devil Kindle has not been available here in the US for at least 5 years I have been searching for it that long. Could it be that Amazon Kindle messed up by offering the Chasing The Devil by Sheriff Reichert and mistakenly took yours off as a duplicate? Think how many sales you have missed by this mistake. Thousands.
Michael Arden
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Tim Butcher:
Hi Tim, Great to hear from you! Did you hear references to “African Science” while in Liberia? Basically it refers to what we’d call the black arts. Often even the power of suggestion would trigger fearful reactions by our neighbors because the belief is so strong. Inspired by Blood River I’m planning to soon read Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa. Best, Michael
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