What feeds our fascination with Africa? How have our passions evolved, and where do we find fullfilment? Here, author Mike Unwin investigates his own very personal obsession. In his story, perhaps we recognise something of our own
”Hold on. I think I saw… Was that some kind of… Can you go back a second?”
It’s around 7.45am on Friday 18 August, 1989. The words, or something similar, are my mother’s. They herald a moment that I have been trying to imagine for much of my life. Forget space travel or scoring the winner in the FA cup final. Forget Siberian tigers, blue whales, polar bears and other fantasy animal A-listers. One childhood dream has long crowded out all others, and its realisation is now just seconds away.
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