在白人墓地旅行

——来自非洲中西部的回忆录

（Travels in the White Mans Grave  Memoirs from West and Central Africa—）

作者: 麦克因涛西. 唐纳德（MacIntosh. Donald）

出版社: Little Brown UK

出版年: 2001-7

页数: 245

定价: £ 10.99

装帧: 平装

ISBN: 9780349114354

内容简介：　　

在20世纪50年代初，非洲中西部深处仍然以“白人的坟墓”而为外部世界所知，它由广袤而神秘的使人不寒而栗的原始森林组成。当唐纳德. 麦克因涛西，一个23岁的说盖尔语的苏格兰的森林人，1954年在尼日利亚被任职，这真是梦想成真，他发现自己是在那片传说中的又热又湿的土地上供职。在未来30年中，他漫步在那些西非最偏远的地区，在那里他作为森林植物学家经营着。在那里，他从广泛而多民族的部落的无数帐篷里，从猎人、渔民、酋长和巫师的嘴里听到古代非洲的故事。他与他们一起喝棕榈酒，在热带月亮下出席村里的舞蹈和仪式。他与许多森林野兽有过冒险经历，从雄伟的豹子到使人即刻致命的吐着舌头的眼镜蛇。非洲原始险恶的奥秘是永远不会远离这本书的表面，一路上遇到一位有性格的主人—— 有着像“魔术精灵T.”和“著名六便士”之类的异国情调的名字 ——他的故事都在这里。

At the beginning of the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known to most of the outside world as the 'White Man's Grave' and consisted of vast expanses of mysterious and threatening primeval forest. When Donald MacIntosh, 23-year-old Gaelic-speaking Scottish forester, was offered a position in Nigeria in 1954, it was a dream come true and he found himself posted to the hot, cloying humidity of those fabled lands. During the next 30 years he was to wander through some of the most remote areas of West Africa where he operated as a forest botanist. There he listened to the tales of ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fishermen, chiefs and witch doctors from a vast diversity of tribes in myriad encampments. He drank palm wine with them and attended their village dances and ceremonies under the tropic moon. He had many adventures with the creatures of the forest, from the magnificent leopard to the instantly fatal spitting cobra. The sinister arcanum of primitive Africa is never too far away from the surface in this book, encountering a host of characters along the way - with exotic names like 'Magic T. Sperm' and 'Famous Sixpence' - whose stories are all told here.