Crossing the Heart of Africa

Banff Award Winner: "Like David Grann''s The Lost City of Z, this is two stories, of an explorer and of the author''s search for him, and both are compelling." —Library JournalIn 1898 the dashing British adventurer Ewart "the Leopard" Grogan fell head-over-heels in love—but before he could marry, he needed the approval of his beloved''s skeptical aristocratic stepfather. Grogan, seeking to prove h...