Tales from the Dark Continent

Based on recorded interviews with 50 British men and women covering three generations of colonial rule in Africa, the stories and recollections in this book evoke the world of traders, missionaries, soldiers, policemen and district officers.

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Small boys and sleeping dictionaries, bush camps and blackwater fever, mosquito-boots and mammy-chairs - TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT is a classic book which captures the vanished world of British colonial Africa through the vivid stories and recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there. 'A rich treasure-house of Empire' SPECTATOR