The bestselling author of 'In Search Of Africa' returns with a story of an epic journey from Cape to Cairo ... and one man's dream for Africa.
While a nameless hunter journals his Heart of Darkness trek from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, a wealthy prospector and his wife establish themselves in Nairobi.
Hoping to expand his family’s fortunes with timber and farming, Ewart Gannon brings his wife Gertrude and their children back to Africa, having gone home to England at the outbreak of the Boer War. He brings them to a house between the rivers - Chiromo. The hero of a record-breaking journey, on foot, from Cape to Cairo, it seems as though Ewart’s every dream for Africa will be fulfilled. But not everyone shares those dreams and as war looms once more, the men and women around him make their own choices - for love, for Empire and for freedom.
