The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
Aidan Hartley
Harper Perennial
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Photo credits: All chapter frontispiece photos courtesy of the Hartley family collection except: ‘Feeding the Beast’ frontispiece photo by Jim Hollander; ‘The Sound of Freedom in the Air’ frontispiece photo by Sam Ouma, courtesy Reuters; ‘Lazarus’ frontispiece photo by Aidan Hartley, courtesy Reuters; ‘Herograms’ frontispiece photo by Judy Walgren.
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To my wife and my mother
From time to time, God causes men to be born – and thou art one of them – who have a lust to go abroad at the risk of their lives and discover news – today it may be of far-off things, tomorrow of some hidden mountain, and the next day of some near-by men who have done a foolishness against the State. These souls are very few; and of these few, not more than ten are of the best.
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Table of Contents
The Sound of Freedom in the Air
One Moment, of the Well of Life to Taste
P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…
Journalism and Death in East Africa
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