description: Hartley, a frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of his own family's 150-year-colonial legacy in Africa, and delivers a beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid young men cut down in their prime, of forbidden love and its fatal consequences, and of family and history, and the collision of cultures that defined them both.
language: English
title: The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
titlecomplete: The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
genres: Biography, Adventure, Memoir, Nonfiction, Kenya, Autobiography, Travel, Africa, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 2649
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Also Commended, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press