Travels in the White Mans Grave: Memoirs from West and Central Africa

I found it quite engaging and an interesting picture of a Nigeria that is mostly gone now. I found the descriptions very vivid -- I felt soggy while reading the chapter on the rainy season.

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I would have loved to see the Africa that Macintosh lived in. Dec 22, Ensiform rated it really liked it Shelves: Posted to Nigeria as a forester in , and remaining in west and central Africa for three decades, the author saw Africa change from a virgin colonial forest teeming with wildlife to a denuded country of chainsaws and corruption. He also heard more than his share of ribald and amusing stories at the expense of both natives and crusty colonials.

This book is a pleasure to read. Mar 19, Matthew rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book was consists of the amusing and loving memoirs of a Scots forester who spent most of his life working in Nigeria. His encounters with snakes, driver ants, and leopards are wonderfully told. There might not have been a tremendous amount of history in this book but it was well worth the read. I found this book a bit hit and miss, I was expecting an overarching plot and actually each chapter reads as a short story in its own right. I was expecting something more akin to the stories of Gerald Durrel, perhaps my problem is, like Durrel, I'm more interested in animals than the passion of Macintosh, which is trees.

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Some chapters were great, with incredible characters, and some were rather dry. Definitely worth a read, especially to get a better feel of the lifestyle and habitat of West Af I found this book a bit hit and miss, I was expecting an overarching plot and actually each chapter reads as a short story in its own right. Definitely worth a read, especially to get a better feel of the lifestyle and habitat of West Africa, but probably not a book I'll re-read.

Jan 20, Monna rated it liked it. I listened to this book on CD and enjoyed the author's memories of living in Africa. It would have rated higher for me if he had included more personal details of his time there. There were sections on the flora and fauna and interesting observations about people he met, but a better time line of what he was doing and when, how he lived day to day and so on would have added to this book for me.

I had read listened to this before in '03 but didn't remember it well. Didn't resonate with me this time either, in part because of the location, West Africa, but more because the author, who, despite all his pluck, struck me as an old fart. A beautiful inside look into the landscape of becoming a pilgrim in a land vs. I found the language at times lacking in adequate description, but it also left me with vast spaces to create images in my mind. A really captivating story based on this man's travels in Africa. Jul 27, Sherry rated it liked it. The true story of a Scottish forester who spent 30 year living in West Africa in the s.

Filled with anecdotes, the way life was and is now, deforestation of Africa. Aug 29, Cheewai Lai rated it it was amazing. The author's masterful command of English language and his talent in storytelling make his graphic recollection a delight to read. A perfect audiobook candidate. Jan 02, Boyce rated it really liked it.

I'm a sucker for memoirs of exotic locales; this one did not disappoint. Aug 23, Patriciagoodwin rated it really liked it. Enlightening account of a forester's life in West Africa in the 's. Kayleigh rated it did not like it Aug 25, Dan rated it really liked it Jan 12, Amanda rated it really liked it Jan 20, Mark R Dornan rated it really liked it Sep 01, Mary rated it really liked it Jun 17, Kat rated it really liked it Aug 07, Molly rated it liked it Nov 14, Richard rated it liked it Aug 13, Lolo rated it liked it Mar 11, LR rated it really liked it Jan 26, Charlene Hawkes rated it it was amazing Jul 15, Julian Ware-Lane rated it it was ok Mar 10, Gordon Miller rated it it was amazing Jan 03, CanadianEditor rated it really liked it May 05, Karen rated it liked it Aug 26, Foresters -- Scotland -- Biography.

Its forests were primeval and inhabited the minds of Westerners as places of foreboding. But to Donald MacIntosh, a year-old Gaelic-speaking Scottish forester, it was a dream come true when he found himself posted to the hot, cloying humidity of those fabled lands. During the next 30 years he was to work and live as a tree surveyor, prospector and forest botanist.

He listened to the tales of ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fishermen, chiefs and witch doctors from a vast diversity of tribes in myriad encampments and also had many encounters with the creatures of the forest, from the magnificent leopard to the homicidal buffalo, and from the indolent but horrendously venomous gaboon viper to the agile, irascible and instantly fatal spitting cobra.

His odyssey contains a host of characters with exotic names like 'Old Man Africa', 'Magic Sperm', 'Famous Sixpence' and 'Pisspot', whose stories are all told here. But the Africa that MacIntosh describes is no more. The forests have been decimated, and with them have gone the people and the creatures that lived in them long before the coming of the white man's chain saw. This is a rare, poignant and sometimes hilarious glimpse into a vanished past by one who was part of it. Notes Description based upon print version of record. ProQuest Ebook Central Rental.

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