THE ZANZIBAR CHEST by Aidan Hartley

In his final days, Aidan Hartley's father said to him, "we should never have come". Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family living in Africa. Hartley, a frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of that legacy, and delivers a beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid young men cut down before their prime, of forbidden love and its fatal consequences, and of family and history, and the collision of cultures that defined them both.

Soft cover, fair condition. The cover shows signs of wear, with scuffing and creasing. The paper is browning.