Travels in the White Man's Grave

by MacIntosh, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780349114354
• ISBN10: 0349114358
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-05
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

Posted to Nigeria in 1954, Scottish forester Donald MacIntosh spent the next thirty years travelling through the 'white man's grave' - the vast, mysterious, primeval forests of West and Central Africa. He heard tales of Ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fisherman, witch doctors; encountered the incredible creatures of the forest, from the magnificent leopard to the homicidal buffalo; and befriended a range of remarkable and eccentric characters such as 'Old Man Africa', 'Magic T. Sperm', 'Famous Sixpence' and 'Pisspot'. With the forests now sadly decimated, this is rare, poignant and sometimes hilarious glimpse into Africa's vanished past.

Author Biography

Donald MacIntosh is the son of a Perthshire woodcutter and studied forestry in Argyll. He spent 30 years as a tree prospector/surveyor in the rainforests of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria. He now lives in the South of England and is still homesick for the Africa he knew.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Richard Ingrams
Traveller in an Antique Land	1	(13)
Whispers from the Past	14	(14)
The Age of Innocence	28	(10)
The Meek Shall Inherit	38	(20)
November Cherries	58	(16)
The Original Native	74	(11)
The Colonel's Lady	85	(12)
Old Man Africa	97	(14)
The Forest of Ghosts	111	(8)
Osei the Carpenter	119	(16)
Magic Sperm	135	(8)
My Old Friend Leopard	143	(13)
The Touracos of Putu	156	(12)
To Skin a Gorilla	168	(12)
Hibiscus Love	180	(16)
The Drunken Chimp	196	(15)
The Harlots of Mundoni	211	(17)
Jam Pass Die	228