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I've got a soft spot for historical adventure fiction, and so picked up this first in the "Anton Rider" series, set largely in British East Africa just after World War I. It's kind of amazing it was published in 1992, because it feels like something from a much more bygone era (albeit with some crazy sexual content). The story revolves around an Roma orphan who flees England as a teenager to seek his fortune in Africa. It's a pretty standard picaresque journey, as he has adventures on the ship o
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Aug 24, 2010
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
