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THE SAVIOUR FISH: LIFE AND DEATH ON AFRICA’S GREATEST LAKE
BY MARK WESTON (EARTH BOOKS)
The third African book by acclaimed writer Mark Weston, tells the compelling story of the author’s two years living on the remote island of Ukerewe on Lake Victoria. Combining travelogue, ethnography and environmental reportage, the book’s immersive portrait of local life on the waters of Africa’s greatest lake features an engaging cast of characters and their daily struggles to survive in one of Tanzania’s poorest backwaters: impoverished fisherman Hasani, dodging government patrol boats in order to eke a living out of the lake; disillusioned house painter Joshua, dreaming of the bright lights of Dar es Salaam; and
