Description: Grant takes readers on an unforgettable journey from Zanzibar into the heart of Africa, traveling with present-day explorers, hunters, degenerates, gangsters, and local reporters, while documenting life, landscape, and the history of white exploration in East Africa.
Brief description: Richard Grant is the New York Times bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto, The Deepest South of All, and four additional works of adventure travel writing and Americana. Currently a contributor to Smithsonian magazine, his journalism has appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He lives with his wife and daughter in Tucson, Arizona.
Review Quotes: "Armchair explorers, rejoice! Richard Grant has gone where we dare not and brought back the news in all its rich, harrowing and lucid detail. The best book about Africa since Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari." --T.C. Boyle, author of The Women and When the Killing's Done