West African folk tales / [compiled by] Hugh Vernon-Jackson ; illustrated by Patricia Wright.
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TextMineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2003Description: vii, 152 pages ; illustrated ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0486427641
- PZ8.1 .W4875 2003
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Unabridged republication of the text and illustrations from West African Folk Tales, Books One and Two (1958), and More West African Folk Tales, Books One and Two (1963). The orig. four books were compiled by Hugh Vernon-Jackson and 1st pub. in London by The Univ. of London Press, Ltd. The separate prefaces from each of the four books have been abridged and combined for the present edition.
Presents twenty-one traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise," "The Boy in the Drum," and "The Magic Cooking Pot."'
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