num_pages: 256
description: The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight details her unique friendship with a banana farmer, one of her parents' neighbors in Zambia, a white African, veteran of the Rhodesian war, and born-again Christian, and their mutual odyssey back in time through Africa to revisit scenes of the war, meet other veterans, and come to terms with the horrors of warfare. 80,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker.
language: English
title: Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
titlecomplete: Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
genres: Zambia, Biography, History, Zimbabwe, War, Africa, Travel, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 4960
places: Zambia
publisher: The Penguin Press