Ramseyer’s Ghost
| Title | Ramseyer’s Ghost |
| Year for Search | 2011 |
| Authors | Herbstein, Manu(b. 1936) |
| Pagination | 222 pp. |
| Date Published | 2011 |
| Publisher | Author |
| Place Published | Np |
| ISBN Number | 978-9988-2-4316-6 |
| Keywords | Ghanaian author, Male author, South African author |
| Annotation | The novel is set in after the Third World War, which ended in a stalemate with the world now split between two powers, and the U.S. sends secret missions to Africa to find needed resources. One mission to Ghana goes missing, and an African American marine is sent to find it and arrange for its rescue. Ghana no longer has a functioning central government, and tribes have developed their own systems, including, where the protagonist lands, a local democracy. |
| Info Notes | Glossary on [217-22] |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1936) was born and raised in South Africa, lives in Ghana, and is a citizen of both countries. In the 1960s he worked as a civil and structural engineer in England, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Zambia and Scotland. He began to write as he approached retirement. |
| Full Text | 2011 Herbstein, Manu (b. 1936). Ramseyer’s Ghost. Np. Author 222 pp. with a Glossary on [217-22]. PSt The novel is set in after the Third World War, which ended in a stalemate with the world now split between two powers, and the U.S. sends secret missions to Africa to find needed resources. One mission to Ghana goes missing, and an African American marine is sent to find it and arrange for its rescue. Ghana no longer has a functioning central government, and tribes have developed their own systems, including, where the protagonist lands, a local democracy. The author was born and raised in South Africa, lives in Ghana, and is a citizen of both countries. In the 1960s he worked as a civil and structural engineer in England, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Zambia and Scotland. He began to write as he approached retirement. |
