Phantom Africa
Distributed for Seagull Books
Translated by Brent Hayes Edwards
720 pages
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37 halftones, 3 facsimiles, 1 map
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7 1/2 x 9
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© 2017
Review Quotes
3:AM Magazine
"It is Leiris himself, the anti-hero of his own recorded adventure, that inadvertently gives Phantom Africa its heart. . . . Phantom Africa is raw, unmediated. . . . It is this intimacy, this willingness to be vulnerable, that one misses most when the journey, and the book, comes to a close."
Pop Matters
"Phantom Africa represents a poignant and beautiful window into something more universal."
Hyperallergic
"Smartly edited, with a nuanced, contextualizing introduction by translator Brent Hayes Edwards, the text — nearly 700 pages long — includes the original mission photos taken in Africa."
Guillaume Segerer
“This is an ‘intellectual adventure more than physical’ superimposed on a historical expedition: intimate, personal thoughts alongside ethnographic description and everyday life in Africa.”
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