TASTE OF SALT: A Story of Modern Haiti .
by Temple, Frances
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0531054594
- ISBN 13
- 9780531054598
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Orchard Books,, (1992.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.). First printing. Inspired by the fire bombing of a boy's shelter in Haiti, this is the story of a badly injured seventeen year old boy who tells of his life as a sugar cane field worker and his work against oppression with Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Laid in is a card SIGNED by the author, with a long holographic note to Peter Cunningham, founder of the Papaza Center in Haiti, thanking him for reading the book and discussing ways to help in Haiti. The author's first book, a young adult novel, and recipient of several awards. Glossary. 179 pp. Dust jacket art by Frances Nolting Temple.
Synopsis
Originally published: New York : Orchard Books, c1992. Available at the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44900
- Title
- TASTE OF SALT: A Story of Modern Haiti .
- Author
- Temple, Frances
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0531054594
- ISBN 13
- 9780531054598
- Publisher
- Orchard Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1992.)
- Keywords
- haiti, jean-bertrand aristide,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Caribbean literature and history;
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