Monthly Archives: October 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars An expert memoir of 1970’s equatorial Africa. Craig Harrison’s “Dreams of a Vanishing Africa” is a superb travel memoir. Harrison is a smooth, capable writer. Most of all though, he possesses the skills demanded by top level travel writing: Keen eyes, ears, olfaction and a continuing sense of rhythm and tone for the road. All the “heavy hitters” of overall travel writing possessed this, e.g. Sir Richard Burton, D.H. Lawrence in his “Sea and Sardinia”…..
Tim Carey was born and raised in central Africa before moving to the UK and subsequently emigrating to Canada. He had difficulty posting his review below on Amazon, and said he would have given it 5 stars. It’s a long time since I left my roots in Central Africa, but reading Craig Harrison’s book “Dreams of a Vanishing Africa” brought memories flooding back with his descriptions of people, places and related experiences that he encountered as he travelled through west,…..