Livingstone's Tribe - A Journey from Zanzibar to the Cape (Paperback, New Ed)


’Livingstone’s Tribe is excellent… Taylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion’ Financial Times’At the book’s heart is a riveting examination of Livingstone’s tribe… the whites of post-independence Africa’ Independent on Sunday’Taylor’s expedition into the interior of the continent’s colonial past has got everything that such a book should have’ Guardian’Stephen Taylor, a third-generation émigré of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits and failures… as well as a heroic, dwindling clutch of missionaries still holding the line. The catalogue of theft, corruption, murder and superstition that Taylor chronicles makes appalling, fascinating reading. Yet Taylor is no Colonel Blimp, rather an anti-apartheid liberal who fled the old South Africa and welcomed independence for Mugabe’s Zimbabwe’ Daily Mail’Sights and travel experiences are vividly described and people both from Livingstone’s and from the other tribes are handled particularly well’ Sunday Times

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’Livingstone’s Tribe is excellent… Taylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion’ Financial Times’At the book’s heart is a riveting examination of Livingstone’s tribe… the whites of post-independence Africa’ Independent on Sunday’Taylor’s expedition into the interior of the continent’s colonial past has got everything that such a book should have’ Guardian’Stephen Taylor, a third-generation émigré of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits and failures… as well as a heroic, dwindling clutch of missionaries still holding the line. The catalogue of theft, corruption, murder and superstition that Taylor chronicles makes appalling, fascinating reading. Yet Taylor is no Colonel Blimp, rather an anti-apartheid liberal who fled the old South Africa and welcomed independence for Mugabe’s Zimbabwe’ Daily Mail’Sights and travel experiences are vividly described and people both from Livingstone’s and from the other tribes are handled particularly well’ Sunday Times

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Flamingo

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

October 2000

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

October 2000

Authors

Dimensions

197 x 130 x 16mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

260

Edition

New Ed

ISBN-13

978-0-00-655069-3

Barcode

9780006550693

Categories

LSN

0-00-655069-X



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