Synopses & Reviews
In 1997, Pedro Rosa Mendes traveled across Africa--6,000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique--on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles.
In war-torn Angola, a country where land mines outnumber people, Mendes found long lines of villagers waiting for shock treatment to neutralize the phantom pain in amputated limbs, an apothecary's tent purveying boiled mucumbi bark to combat scurvy lesions in the mouth, and trains crowded with people eating salted fish and drinking beer, swapping tales of local sorcerers who can turn into snakes. He interviewed international relief workers and corrupt local officials, widows and orphans, soldiers and survivors, piecing together a rich portrait no history or travel book can match.
Review
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
BAY OF TIGERS"A fascinating, lively, rich work of literature, and I read it with great interest. Pedro Rosa Mendes is truly an inspired author, and not only because he is capable of the most perceptive observations. He has that most important quality--an extraordinarily powerful imagination."--Ryszard Kapuscinski
About the Author
Pedro Rosa Mendes is a Portuguese journalist and writer. His dispatches from Zaire, Angola, Rwanda, and Afghanistan have earned him widespread renown in Europe. Bay of Tigers is his first book.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
AUTHOR'S NOTE
TERMINUS
AFRICA HOTEL
VILLA MISÉRIA
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
GLOSSARY