'Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue' (1963)* by Paul Bowles A collection of short travel essays, which are: 1) Fish traps and private business 2) All Parrots Speak 3) Notes mailed from Nagercoil 4) A Man Must Not be very Moslem 5) Africa Minor 6) Mustapha and Friends 7) The Rif, to Music 8) Baptism of Solitude 9) The Route to Tassemsit In the Random House edition, these stories are in a different order: 1) Fish traps and private business 2) Africa Minor 3) Notes mailed from Nagercoil 4) Mustapha and Friends 5) A Man Must Not be very Moslem 6) The Rif, to Music 7) Baptism of Solitude 8) All Parrots Speak 9) The Route to Tassemsit Available Editions: First Edition, UK: 'Their Heads are Green' London: Peter Owen, 1963 Later Editions, UK: 'Their Heads are Green' London: Peter Owen, 1985 Second Edition 'Their Heads are Green' Abacus Press (Sphere Books). 1990 Modern Paperback book 'Their Heads are Green' Penguin Paperback amazon.co.uk...amazon.de...amazon.fr 'Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue' Paperback, May 2003 amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr First Edition, USA: 'Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue' Scenes from the Non-Christian World New York: Random House, 1963. First edition - *one of the two editions with the full title Later Editions, USA: 'Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands are Blue' softcover, Ecco Press in 1984 *one of the three editions with the full title 'Their Heads Are Green' softcover, Ecco Press in 1984 'Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue' NY: Ecco Press (1991) 'Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue' Paperback, May 2003 amazon.com Later Edition: Germany 'Der Weg Nach Tassemsit Und Andere Reiseerzählungen Aus Der Nicht-Christlichen Welt' Bonn (Frank & Frei), 1990 Later Edition, France: 'Leurs mains sont bleues' (Their Hands are Blue) Seuil (Points) 1995 Dedicated to the life and work of Paul and Jane Bowles ©International Paul Bowles Society, 2000 a non-profit organisation in England