The Zanzibar Chest - A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands (Paperback)

Combining literary reportage, memoir, family history, and a quest to piece together a decades-old mystery, The Zanzibar Chest is a moving examination of colonialism and its consequences. In his final days, Aidan Hartley's father said to him, "We should have never come." Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family. From a great-great-grandfather who defended British settlements in nineteenth-century New Zealand, to his father, a colonial officer sent to Africa in the 1920s and who later returned to raise a family there--these were intrepid men who traveled to exotic lands to conquer, build, and bear witness. And there is Aidan, who becomes a journalist covering Africa in the 1990s, a decade marked by terror and genocide. After encountering the violence in Somalia, Uganda, and Rwanda, Aidan retreats to his family's house in Kenya where he discovers the Zanzibar chest his father left him. Intricately hand-carved, the chest contained the diaries of his father's best friend, Peter Davey, an Englishman who had died under obscure circumstances five decades before. With the papers as his guide, Hartley embarked on a journey not only to unlock the secrets of Davey's life, but his own.

General

Imprint:	Black Cat
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Aidan Hartley
Dimensions:	208 x 137 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-2585-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > World history > General Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Promotions
LSN:	0-8021-2585-9
Barcode:	9780802125859

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