The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
Aidan Hartley
The Zanzibar Chest was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-13
- 9780007380268
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Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2004)
Other awarded books from Aidan Hartley
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