Clipping Their Whiskers

John Reader

The Physician and the Slave Trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone Expeditions, and the Crusade against Slavery in East Africa by Daniel Liebowitz

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John Reader was a photo-journalist based in Nairobi from 1969 to 1979. Africa: A Biography of the Continent is out from Penguin.

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