THE SKY & THE FOREST, C S Forester, UK pb 1963

This paperback is C S Forester's novel 'The Sky and The Forest' published by 4 Square books in the UK in 1963.  Book is in reasonable condition.  224 pages. Picture is of actual book.

SYNOPSIS:  They came to violate Africa in their different ways, the Arab slave-trader and the white colonist.  The Arab came with the whip and the yoke, seeking slaves for wealthy households and the harems of the East.  The European brought the gun and the bible, to exploit - but to civilise too.  To the black peoples of Central Africa, both were alien, as strange and cruel as hostile creatures from another planet.  Some natives, like Loa, womaniser, tyrant, proud chief of his people, tasted danger and bondage - and survived to organise a ruthless resistance.  Against the brooding, timeless backdrop of the sky and the forest they met - in a bloody and merciless struggle for supremacy.....