num_pages: 164
description: What is young David Livingstone doing on the run in Africa, with his mother's credit card in his pocket and the Tanzanian police in hot pursuit? And what is he doing on Hell Road, a potholed obstacle course to the Zambian border, where cannibals lie in wait - car cannibals that is - and the rumour of Duma the Cheetah keeps spreading?The truth is that David can't answer these questions himself. Is he chasing his father's ghost or proving himself to the beautiful but disdainful Jackie back in Canada? David is bent on reaching Victoria Falls, the Smoke That Thunders, and old Mr. Changwe - who has lost a leg to Duma - has even more pressing reasons to get to the famous waterfall.This funny, provocative book reveals an Africa few of us have read about: colourful, contradictory, and confounding every stereotype of the "dark continent".
language: English
title: Smoke That Thunders
publisher: Thistledown Press