Livingstones Tribe by Stephen Taylor

Livingstones Tribe by Stephen Taylor

`A masterpieceThis is a hugely ambitious book, a history of his family’s involvement with Africa over 70 years … riveting.’ Matthew Leeming, The Spectator

`He captures brilliantly the voracity of the global media and is only too aware of his own role in `feeding the beast’. The life of war correspondent is well chronicled: fear, disgust and adrenaline pervade Hartley’s writing as he describes their doings…he leaves the reader with a mesmerising portrait of his beloved Africa’s unhappy squalor.’ Charlie Campbell, Time Out

`A powerful blend of family history and war correspondent’s memoir…searing, deeply instructive memoir.’Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph

Stephen Taylor was born in South Africa in 1948 and grew up near Johannesburg. At the age of twenty-two he made his home in Britain and travelled for four years in the Middle East and South Asia. From 1980-1987 he was foreign correspondent for The Times and the Observer based in Africa, South East Asia and Australia. Both his previous books have had African subjects, including Shaka’s Children: a History of the Zulu People. He works for The Times and is married with two children.