Goodreads asked Brian Duncan:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Brian Duncan I was researching the background for 'The Lion and the Leopard' when I was drawn into reading about the slave trade in the area around Lake Nyasa in the last half of the 1800s. Attention was drawn to it by David Livingstone, and there are several gripping first-hand accounts of the struggles to defeat the slave traders. My novel 'Lake of Slaves' covers the period 1887-1895, and is essentially a true story, woven around fictional characters.

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