BABOONS ON THE VERANDAH

188pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007

American journalist Cornell 'Duke" Acheson (1918-1992) was an Africa correspondent for a group of Mid-West newspapers in the 1940s and 1950s.

This memoir covers his early travels, especially his seven years living on a farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.