This is a book about Africa, its animals and people, and also its history and modern dilemma, the assault of colonialism, politics gone awry, tourism, the conflict of tradition and ambition. It is equally a personal discovery, the rapture of Nature and the pursuit of Paradise. Is Paradise a far-off place? A condition? A quest? It is more properly the acceptance of personal pursuits, and the best of all posible worlds, which lie within.