L’ombra del Kilimanjaro

Year: 2000 Pages: 272 A climb in reverse, descending from the summit of Kilimanjaro to reach the Indian Ocean through the Tsavo National Park, in contact with what remains of the primitive fauna decimated by years of indiscriminate hunting and poaching, is the opportunity to question ourselves about the past and future of that geographical area which was the cradle of humanity. It is also an opportunity to meet with surviving populations and extraordinary characters such as Richard Leakey - the paleoanthropologist who discovered Homo habilis - and to recall figures from the past linked to that Africa, such as Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatton.