‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’
Brilliantly original, funny and clever Honor Clark, Spectator, Book of the Year
Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which explorers, railway labourers, decadent émigrés, freedom fighters, and pioneering African leaders made Shakespeare their own in this alien land.