Title: A somewhat flawed edition of a fine novel
Product review: A unique evocation of what it was like to safari in Africa in the mid-19th Century. The author's "voice" allows us to saturate ourselves in the colors, textures, odors, sounds, and sensations of a trek through wildest Africa. I've never read anything quite like this, in terms of transporting the reader far from the here and now, to a long-vanished world. The novel also tries to do justice to a long-forgotten historical figure, the explorer Speke, whose untimely death and rivalry with the much-more-famous Burton have conspired to cheat him of almost all credit for his incredible exploits. But the character you won't soon forget is the narrator, "Bombay," whose vocabulary and viewpoint are quite unique to English literature! Recommended!The book is unattractively printed and bound, with many typos. The compelling nature of the text keeps these from being as distracting as they otherwise might be.
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