Africa s Last Romantic: The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom captures the drama and excitement of John L. Brom s film expeditions from 1949 to 1962 through sub-Saharan Africa. Brom was the only explorer to follow the footsteps of Henry Morton Stanley and in a documentary interviewed the two last survivors of Stanley s expeditions from 1874 to 1890. In 1955 he also interviewed the famous nineteenth-century East African slave trader Tippu Tip s grandson, who defended his grandfather s trade. Brom s expedition was the basis for his bestseller 20,000 Miles in the African...