Tales from the Torrid Zone

Part memoir, part travelogue, Tales From the Torrid Zone is rooted in Alex Frater''s birthplace, the tiny tropical republic of Vanuatu where his father ran its hospital and his mother, in her front garden, built its first school. From this obscure South Seas group he ranges over the hot, wet, beautiful swathe of the world that has haunted him ever since – dines with a tropical queen in a leper col...