Forest of Memories: Tales from the Heart of Africa

by Donald Mac Intosh (Author)

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  2001

  $5.40

  Donald MacIntosh's travels have taken him around the world during a working life which has spanned the inter-war years to the 1980s. In that time he has always maintained a love for the pursuit he first learnt on the shores of Wigtown Bay: fishing. In this collection of tales he recalls characters and incidents from around the world which all have something fishy about them. From his native Scotland, through West and Central Africa where he lived for many years as a tree surveyor, to Newfoundland and Canada where he lectured for many years, the stories are recounted in MacIntosh's unique style.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $4.76

  As a child, Donald MacIntosh's heroine was Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century traveller who successfully took on the forbidding forests and swamps of West Africa. It was an adventure he was to follow for much of his adult life, spending thirty years as a forester in the so-called 'white man's grave'. MacIntosh, however, more than lived to tell his tales, which he does so here with characteristic gusto and relish. Here are stories of a somewhat salty nature, both in style and subject matter. In Africa, Mac Intosh writes, the sea never sleeps and Forest of Memories is equally vibrant. As always, the tales are rich with characters and humour: Laval, the temperamental but highly successful fishing baboon; Jig-time Charlie, ladies' man and local footballing legend; and the beautiful Titi, who employed both feminine guile and cat droppings to win an international angling competition.As sharp and cutting as the teeth of the tigerfish, this latest collection finds Donald Mac Intosh in splendidly wicked form once again.