Travels in the White Man's Grave - Memoirs from West and Central Africa

Zusatztext [MacIntosh's] stories for West and Central Africa may sometimes be tall! but he can tell them. MacIntosh listens to chiefs! witch doctors and hunters telling their magical tales! drinking palm wine with them or lying out under the stars while drums beat a tattoo and weird ceremonies take place. There were some hair-raising encounters with cobras! vipers and homicidal buffalos! but MacIntosh! whose romantic attraction to the forest never falters! takes it all lightly Informationen zum Autor Donald MacIntosh is the son of a Perthshire woodcutter and studied forestry in Argyll. He spent 30 years as a tree prospector/surveyor in the rainforests of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria. He now lives in the South of England and is still homesick for the Africa he knew. Klappentext * In a real-life odyssey! Scottish-born Donald MacIntosh recounts tales from the magical fabled rainforests of pre-independence West-Africa * In a real-life odyssey, Scottish-born Donald MacIntosh recounts tales from the magical fabled rainforests of pre-independence West-Africa Zusammenfassung * In a real-life odyssey, Scottish-born Donald MacIntosh recounts tales from the magical fabled rainforests of pre-independence West-Africa

Product details

• Authors: Donald Macintosh, MacIntosh Donald
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.07.2001
• EAN: 9780349114354
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11435-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 196 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Memoirs from West and Central; Memoirs from West and Central
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, TRAVEL / Africa / General, Africa, Travel writing