From the age of ten, the author was determined to be involved with
African wildlife. This memoir recounts how he was able to fulfil this
dream, travelling through Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe,
Malawi and Egypt, as well as the Yemen, which biologically is almost
Africa. He tells of being captured by Eritrean guerillas, seeing Gelada
baboons in the Ethiopian highlands and the huge migrations of zebra and
wildebeest in the Serengeti, doing research on termites in Darfur as
well as assessing agricultural problems in the highest fastnesses of the
Yemeni mountains, gazing in awe at the Pyramids of Giza and marvelling
at the Victoria Falls in full flo