Man belong Mrs Queen: my South-Sea adventures with the Philip worshippers
by Baylis, Matthew.
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BookPublisher: Old Street 2013ISBN: 9781908699640; 1908699647.Classification number: 919.595 BAYSubject(s): Baylis -- Travel -- Vanuatu | Philip Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain 1921- -- Cult | Cults -- Vanuatu | Vanuatu -- Description and travel | Vanuatu -- Social life and customsSubject: As a bookish child grwoing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. Years later, his Philip-worship long behind him, and now studying anthropology, Baylis discovered the existence of a Philip cult on the South Sea island of Tanna. Why was it there? Nobody had a convincing answer. Nobody even seemed to want to find one. His curiosity fatally piqued, Baylis travelled 10,000 miles to find a society both remote and slap-bang in the shipping-lanes of history.
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As a bookish child grwoing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. Years later, his Philip-worship long behind him, and now studying anthropology, Baylis discovered the existence of a Philip cult on the South Sea island of Tanna. Why was it there? Nobody had a convincing answer. Nobody even seemed to want to find one. His curiosity fatally piqued, Baylis travelled 10,000 miles to find a society both remote and slap-bang in the shipping-lanes of history.
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