A Wisp of Wisdom: Animal Tales from Cameroon

by Abi Elphinstone, Beverley Naidoo, Elizabeth Laird, Piers Torday, Geraldine McCaughrean, Adele Geras, Gill Lewis, Tom Moorhouse, Sarah Lean, and Ifeoma Onyefulu

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As the sun rises behind Mount Yuhan, a leopard, a hornbill, a civet and a tortoise ascend a ladder into the clouds. A fly picks a fight with an elephant. A monkey pits his wits against a crocodile. And that's all before breakfast. Armoured pangolins, blue-bottomed drill monkeys, red-legged francolins and red river hogs are just some of the fascinating creatures you will discover in this collection of folk tales from the Korup region of Cameroon, tales that are just as extraordinary as the animals that inspired them...
  • ISBN13 9781911373063
  • Publish Date 30 November 2016
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 July 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Lantana Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 160
  • Language English