
Foreigners: Three English Lives
by Caryl Phillips
Title:
Foreigners: Three English Lives
Author:
Caryl Phillips
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
272 pages
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13:
9780099488859
EAN:
9780099488859
Publication Date:
04/09/2008
Classifications:
Biography and non-fiction prose
Weight (g):
320
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 130 x 18
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Presents the stories of Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson; Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer; and, David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice.

















