The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port Französische Küche while posing as an innocent

while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to town

ironic and full of dry wit

In these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests

or a workshop

Night People is the definitive account of a cultural moment and the making of a musical mastermind

The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port Französische Küche while posing as an innocentA unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed by Senegambian healers the djabak s. But who was Peres? And why was the Portuguese Inquisition so concerned with policing the faith of a