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By: Sean Rothery
Publisher: Blackhall Publishing Ltd
Published: October 2009
Pages: 238
Categories: Biography, Culture, Earth Sciences, History, History culture, Travel
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781901658774
ASIN: 1901658775

This work is a celebration of the splendid highlands and savannahs of Uganda. It is also a story of loss, during those last days of the British Empire in Africa. This is the true story of a newly-married young couple who emigrated from Ireland to East Africa in the mid 1950s. Their adventures, both in work and in explorations in remote regions, are told against a background of day-to- day living as privileged Europeans in a deeply colour-regulated society. The tales of the late Victorian explorers of the 'Dark Continent', Stanley, Speke, Burton, Baker and the Irishman, Surgeon Major T.H. Parke, are interwoven in the narrative: the paths of these intrepid adventurers crisscross from Lake Victoria to the fabled Mountains of the Moon, named by Ptolemy and now known as the Ruwenzori.

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