Boyles, Denis

New York. 1988. September 1988. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1555840345. 240 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. Jacket Photograph: Sir Henry Morton Stanley, The Bettmann Archive/BBC Hulton Picture Library. keywords: Africa Travel History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - African Lives offers a series of ebullient and evocative portraits of the ‘white tribe' In Africa: Westerners from General Gordon to Emin Pasha to Karen Blixen to the present crop of adventurers who have fallen under the spell of that Inexhaustible continent. It presents an Irreverent and original collection of characters, crises, and stories, amply demonstrating that the spirit of the great European adventurers of the past is still present among the fly-boys, missionaries, and knock-abouts of today. Moving back and forth through a hundred years, Denis Boyles, journalist. writer and himself one of the African enthusiasts of whom he treats, sketches portraits not only of some of the great personalities from the past - Rhodes, Lugard, Markham - but of such colorful present-day figures as Patrick Shaw, a police official in Nairobi; George Pappas, a self-made millionaire pilot in Kinshasa; and Ian Smith, the ex-prime minister of Rhodesia. Provocative, informed, humorous, and invariably entertaining, African Lives is what the author calls a ‘pre-ideological' examination of a vivid and fascinating part of African history. inventory #10844 ISBN: 1555840345.