Description: A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, andsurpasses them in scientific achievements.
Brief description: Steve Kemper is the author of A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa and Code Name Ginger, as well as many articles for national magazines. He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Review Quotes: Heinrich Barth belongs in the ranks of the greatest explorers of Africa. But unlike most of the others, he was less interested in imperial conquest and self-promotion than in the cultures, the peoples, the languages, and the ancient manuscripts that he found there. It's a pleasure to see a lively, readable biography of him in English at last.--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and To End All Wars