by Henry de Monfreid · Grasset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246624318
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«Djalia» is the adventure novel by Henry de Monfreid, published by Grasset in paperback (184 pages, in French).
Karembo, son of the great Masai sorcerer Sandéou, flees his land pursued by the whites and harassed by the intrigues of his own people. On the other side of the Tana River awaits the hostile «land of thirst» and a confrontation with slave traders to free the young Djalia, kidnapped from her village.
The full title is «Djalia, ou La revanche de Karembo»; work originally published in France in 2001.
Suitable for readers of adventure fiction interested in Africa and survival stories.
Henry de Monfreid was a French adventurer, a prolific writer, sailor, a smuggler, a shipowner, a hashish trader, and perhaps a spy. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child.
