To Tanstaafl-Alexandra Fuller

[Spock]

You mentioned an upcoming trip to Africa.

Have you read, or otherwise heard of, Alexandra Fuller.

She wrote

"Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight"

and

"Scribbling the Cat"

I really think you would like these books-

the first is a memoir of her childhood as growing up White African in the Rhodesian War

and the second-she travels into Mozambique with a soldier of that war to see the areas he fought.

Her parents and the soldier now live in Zambia and farm there.

[tanstaafl2]

Thanks. Not familiar with them but will check them out. No doubt need some more "in-flight" reading for the 24 hour trip it takes just to get there.

[tanstaafl2]

Hey Spock! Was looking into the books you recommended. Have you read anything by Peter Godwin as well? He wrote "Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa"and "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa". Godwin also co-wrote one of the more definitive histories of the time of civil war in Rhodesia called "Rhodesians Never Die". He is more focused on Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, as are many books, rather than Zambia/Northern Rhodesia which tends to have less written about it.