by Alexander McCall Smith
Random House, 2002
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This book is less like taking a vacation than moving to Botswana and setting up shop amid the dust, sweltering heat and fierce beauty of the land. You’ll drink innumerable cups of bush tea and become accustomed to a slower pace of life. You’ll learn not to get on the wrong side of witch doctors and when searching for missing persons, you’ll remember to check if leopards or crocodiles are in the area. Although the book is a quick read, this is not a short vacation. Be prepared to settle in.
“When you see these hills from a distance, they are blue; as all the distances in this country are. We are far from the sea here, with Angola and Namibia between us and the coast, and yet we have this great empty ocean of blue above us and around us. No sailor could be lonelier than a man standing in the middle of our land, with the miles and miles of blue about him.”
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