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In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he soon finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in almost nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked with malaria & alienated by a secret he can tell no one, he takes increasing solace in the company of the African who helps him hunt. In 2000 Max, an American ethnobotonist, travels to Rwanda in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical. Stationed in the mountains, she closely shadows a family of gorillas, the last of their group to survive the encroachment of local poachers. Max bears a striking gift for understanding the ape's non-verbal communication, but their precarious solidarity is threatened as a violent rebel group from the nearby Congo draws close.Told in alternating perspectives that interweave the two characters & their fates, Audrey Schulman’s newest novel deftly confronts the struggle between progress & preservation, idiosyncrasy & acceptance. Evoking both Barbara Kingsolver & Andrea Barrett, this enthralling fiction, wise & gener

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Author

Audrey Schulman

Publisher

Europa Editions UK

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787701267

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Adventure, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.91 / 5 (674 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14