South Pacific / Duke of Edinburgh / Religion
/ SYNOPSIS
In a jungle on the other side of the world a tribe worship the Duke of Edinburgh as a god. Their priest waits down by the sea for the corporeal manifestation of this divinity. However after a warning from a concerned parishioner he returns to find out that a young English missionary has been evangelising the young people of his tribe. The chief calls for a grand debate on religion with the result that the priest is expelled and the whole tribe converts to Christianity. A year later another Englishman, whose convictions are rather more patriotic than religious, appears on a hunting trip in search of a rare and beautiful jungle antelope. The exiled priest agrees to guide him to his old village, where he finds his people are chafing under the new faith. The two Englishmen take an instant dislike to each other and the battle for the souls of the tribe begins all over again as the newcomer attempts to persuade them back to their old religion. Egged on by the chief and the old priest these two foreigners decide the faith of the tribe in a struggle of wits that reaches its startling and tragic climax where the jungle comes down to the sea.
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Catalogue Details
Publication Date: Nov 2007
ISBN: 9780955572999
Small Paperback
Price: £7.99
59pp.
Rights: World
Reportage Press is a new publishing house specialising in books on foreign affairs or set in foreign countries; non-fiction, fiction, essays, travel books, old travel memoirs, or just books written from a stranger’s view.
Daniela Norris and Shireen Anabtawi in discussion - October 12th, London Jewish Cultural Centre
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