Travels in the white man's grave: Memoirs from West and Central Africa - Donald MacIntosh

Posted to Nigeria in 1954, Scottish forester Donald MacIntosh spent the next thirty years travelling through the ‘white man’s grave’ – the vast, mysterious, primeval forests of West and Central Africa.

He heard tales of ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fishermen and witch doctors; encountered the incredible creatures of the forest, from the magnificent leopard to the homicidal buffalo; and befriended a range of remarkable and eccentric characters such as ‘Old Man Africa’, ‘Magic T. Sperm’, ‘Famous Sixpence’ and ‘Pisspot’. With the forests now sadly decimated, this is a rare, poignant and sometimes hilarious glimpse into Africa’s vanished past.