ASIN: B00IPPI5DG
Publisher: Four Seasons Press, LLC
Pages: 59
“Peter Rand’s stylish memoir plunges us into the boozy bonhomie among the journalists, hoteliers, and other Caucasian hangers-out and hangers-on in an African nation. MY ZANZIBAR REVOLUTION brings to mind Graham Greene in its empathic understanding of innocence –its crazy grandeur as well as its destructiveness. This beautifully written, exciting, and insightful memoir is a must-read for anyone interested in Africa-in-transition, or the follies of youth.” ---Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love and A Ship Made of PaperAt the age of twenty, Peter Rand flunked out of college, left his comfortable home in California, crossed the ocean, and roamed the world to pursue his destiny as a writer. In Africa, this young drifter, an inexperienced stringer for the New York Herald Tribune, stumbled into revolution. He was living on Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Kenya in the Indian Ocean. ...
