Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundredand fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers anda sister on their separate journeys through different epochs andcontinents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one apioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century,and one a GI posted to aYorkshire village in the Second World War.

Ⅰ THE PAGAN COAST

Ⅱ WEST

Ⅲ CROSSING THE RIVER

Ⅳ SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND