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SIGNED! BUT I DIGRESS A WHIRLWIND TRIP THROUGH AFRICA IN THE 1950s AND 1960s WITH SNIPPETS F HISTORY AND LARGER-THAN-LIFE CHARACTERS BY FERGUS MACLEOD. SOFT COVER, 224 PAGES, WATER DAMAGE TO EDGES OF BOOK, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, IN GOOD CONDITION.
The name 'Pietermaritzburg' is quite a mouthful. I discovered many years later that having a long-winded birth place can have adverse consequences. Thus, all over southern Africa, in dusty, decaying buildings, small papers certify that my birthplace is "Barn", a fictitious village with a very short name ... But, I digress! For the rest of this story and many others that will inform you, make you laugh until tears run down your cheeks, or make you reflect on your own past, add this page-turner to the top of your reading list. A delightful combination of autobiography, history, travel writing and humour, this book will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.