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Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the bird walk of the East African Ornithological Society, Rose Mbikwa. While Mr Malik plans how he will ask Rose to the annual Hunt Ball, Harry Kahn arrives in town and makes it clear that he too has Rose in his sights. A wager is set.

A nameless narrator, abandoned on an island soon to be obliterated by volcanic activity, tells the story of his life and exile from England. The tale is as extraordinary for its observations of a surreal natural history as for the dark twistings of human nature it reveals. His particular interest is beetles--a passion he shares, most literally, with the idolized friend of his school years, Charles Darwin--and his reckless pursuit of the golden scarab has led him to a place that mirrors the Galapagos in the utter singularity of its fauna and flora. Blood-sucking mistletoe and amphibian...

Drayson pens a beguiling story that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith's Ladies Detective series does for Botswana, in this novel of love, wisdom, and political follies.