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E-177: UNKNO. Very Good. 1994. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA. 1994. 169 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Ibonia: Epic of Madagascar is a discovery: the first English translation of the major work of Malagasy oral literature, recorded in 1877 from an anonymous bard by a Norwegian missionary and translated by Lee Haring, who was called "the pre-eminent American scholar of Malagasy verbal art" by Research in African Literatures. Ibonia is the epic tale of the birth and exploits of a royal hero. His mother, a queen of heroic caliber, is barren until she consults a diviner, who brings about the hero's conception. An unusual birth and precocious strength prepare the hero to go in…
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- Title Ibonia: Epic of Madagascar
- Author Lee Haring (Other)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 169
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA
- Date September 1994
- ISBN 9780838752845 / 0838752845
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94016117
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.204
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Ibonia Epic of Madagascar
by translated and Introduced Bylee Haring
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