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Paperback Travels in the White Man's Grave Book

ISBN: 0349114358

ISBN13: 9780349114354

Travels in the White Man's Grave

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At the beginning of the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known to most of the outside world as the 'White Man's Grave' and consisted of vast expanses of mysterious and threatening primeval forest. When Donald MacIntosh, 23-year-old Gaelic-speaking Scottish forester, was offered a position in Nigeria in 1954, it was a dream come true and he found himself posted to the hot, cloying humidity of those fabled lands. During the next...

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Fanciful, Delightfully Written Tale of Africa

MacIntosh has emerged from the continent of Africa with a chest full of treasures and has penned them into a brilliant book. He begins the stories with what led him to Africa...the forests. Through the telling of information about trees and lumber, MacIntosh runs through some entertaining stories about his time in Africa. These stories run the gamut of events that include harrowing escapes and run ins with wild animals and extraordinary encounters with natives whom he befriends. In some of the stories, he is the main character and in others he has heard it secondhand. Both ways are captivating. On the whole, the book is warm and delightful with many humorous touches. MacIntosh lifts the veil of the mysterious jungles of Africa for readers. I look forward to learning of more of MacIntosh's travels in the white man's grave. The narrator of the audio version is a first rate actor and reads the book splendidly. Shakespeare On Spirituality: Life-Changing Wisdom from Shakespeare's Plays
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