The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War

Travelogues & Travel Essays

Author: Aidan Hartley

A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent’s horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of autobiographical journalism.,,,Aidan Hartley, a foreign correspondent, burned-out from the horror of covering the terrifying mi….Read More

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