African book

For the Russian reader Africa - still Terra Incognita. Its diverse geography corresponds to the abundance of distinctive and absolutely unlike one to another cultures.
Alexander Zesin - a writer, a poet and a doctor - has been spending for many years on trips on this, not yet fully studied, plunged into his life and history. He treats typhoid in the desert and malaria in the jungle, studies the languages ​​of Suahili and Chvi, collects oils in Madagascar, compares the kitchens of Senegal and Somali, translates the local classics and modern authors.
Before us is a new type of African text for Russian literature: a hundred years after the journey of Nikolai Gumilyov Schesin, it turns out to be a mediator between cultures, spaces the long -established stereotypes about the continent, which may have to determine the future