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Philip Caputo–ACTS OF FAITH
“You have in one valley a village and you have in another valley another village and the people don’t even speak the same language. This makes it easy for the Arabs to give rewards to one tribe if they...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah–PARADISE
A delightful story loaded with important social and political observations. A finalist in 1994 for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise hides major themes and ideas within the...
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Virginia Morrell–ANCESTRAL PASSIONS
Definitive Biography of the Leakeys, the First Family of Hominid Research Focusing on the entire Leakey family, from Louis and Mary Leakey, who were the paleontologist parents of Richard Leakey, also a...
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Rick Ridgeway–THE SHADOW OF KILIMANJARO
“Whatever happens to beasts happens to man.” Combining moments of danger with moments of profound introspection, mountaineer/explorer Ridgeway details his journey from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro...
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Audrey Schulman–THREE WEEKS IN DECEMBER
“The final price tag for this railroad [through southern Kenya] would be staggering even to the British Empire. Once England had spent this much on a colony, it could not possibly let things continue...
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Frances Osborne–THE BOLTER
“In an age of wicked women, [Idina Sackville] had pushed the boundaries of behavior to extremes.…She danced, stayed out all night, and slept around more noticeably than her fellows. When the sexual...
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Paul Theroux–DARK STAR SAFARI
Note: Having recently finished Last Train to Zona Verde (2013), which focuses on the miseries of present day life along Africa’s southwest coast from Capetown to Angola, I decided to revisit author...
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Richard Crompton–HOUR OF THE RED GOD
“The sun is at the vertical, and shade is as scarce as charity on Biashara Street. Where it exists - shop fronts and alleyways, like cave mouths and canyons – life clings: eyes blink, and patiently...
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Richard Crompton–HELL’S GATE
“Many times he has entered prison. Many times he has smelled that scent of stale, confined humanity; has felt the air, thick with the heat of hundreds of bodies…Every time, panic threatens to rise...
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