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Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan by Edward Paice
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• First man to travel south-to-north across Africa
• An account of life in British East Africa
• Grogan was a founding father of colonial Kenya
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• Only a small part of the book is about the trip
• Concentrates too much on Grogan's endless scheming
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A fascinating life obsessively portrayed. Interesting for the Cape-to-Cairo journey and the description of life in colonial Kenya.
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Hardback: 470 pages
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Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001
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ISBN: 0-00-257003-3
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Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan by Edward Paice
If you read this book mainly for Grogan's traverse of the continent, you'll be disappointed to find it covers only some 60 pages. But you should remember that this is a book about his life's achievements, although only someone with a serious interest in the ins and outs of Kenyan colonial politics will finish reading it. You're more likely to get to a point where Grogan's endless scheming and plans and family matters start losing their fascination.
Lost Lion of the Empire left me wishing that the publisher would reissue Grogan's From The Cape To Cairo as for me this remains the most interesting part of his life and it would be fascinating to read his account of his epic journey.
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