No man's land: An investigative journey through Kenya and Tanzania - Hardcover

George Monbiot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333601637 ISBN 13: 9780333601631

Publisher: Picador, 1994

Synopsis

For thousands of years the nomads of East Africa have protected the savannahs that are their livelihood. Today they and their land are threatened by bandits, farming and tourism. Ironically the biggest threat is conservation. Exposing some of Africa's best-kept secrets, the author travelled amongst the Masiti, the Samburu and the Turkani across some of the most hostile places in Africa. This is a controversial and adventurous travel book which also recognizes a spiritual journey as George Monbiot discovers what it means to be a nomad, and why many of us are not content to stay in one place.

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About the Author

George Monbiot is the author of The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain. His other books include Poisoned Arrows and Amazon Watershed. He is a columnist for The Guardian and Visiting Professor of Planning at Oxford Brookes University. He has held visiting professorships or fellowships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics) and East London (environmental science).

Review

George Monbiot has already done more to change the world and our perception of it than most of us can hope to achieve in a lifetime . . . Now he has exposed what is going on in Kenya and Tanzania, where the nomadic people are being driven off their land and systematically murdered . . . As we have learnt to expect, he pulls no punches, naming names and pointing an unerring finger at the sinners and their blatant corruption. Yet he writes with such charm and erudition that no one could mistake this for the ravings of a fanatic . . . We need people like Monbiot more than ever before * Robin Hanbury Tenison, New Scientist * Monbiot brings to East Africa the same combination of scholarship, foolhardy courage and passionate commitment which characterized his previous books on Indonesia and Brazil. In these respects more than any other travel writer I can think of he embodies all the great virtues of the Victorian explorers . . . required reading for anyone who wishes to understand better the problems of modern Africa * Daily Mail *

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0333601637
• ISBN 13: 9780333601631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240