by Javier Reverte · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401341779
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«El sueño de África» is Javier Reverte's travel chronicle, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Chronicle of a journey through Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya in which Reverte alternates the account of his experiences with the memory of explorers, African kings and writers who portrayed the continent. The text combines colonial history and independence with scenes of the present, with the fascination for Africa as a guiding thread.
First instalment of the Africa Trilogy. The work was originally published in 1996; this edition adds sections of photographs and engravings with portraits of cited characters.
For readers of travel literature and African history, with an interest in the colonial past and the exploration of the continent.
Spanish novelist, travel writer and journalist (1944–2020)
