The Viceroy of Ouidah
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Author:
Bruce Chatwin
Year: 1980
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671412531
Comments:
Francisco Manuel da Silva was a Brazilian from the 1800s who became the most powerful slave trader in West Africa. For this rococo novella’s jacket, Fred’s portrait on a decaying stucco wall seems to capture his brutality through understatement.