Lewis Kotlow, an American traveler and film director, a member of the English Geographical Society, circumnavigated the globe three times and visited the tropics of Africa three times. The author photographed lions in the savannah, a gorilla in the tropical forest on the slopes of the Moon Mountains, hippos on the river shallows... Having completed the trip, Kotlow exchanges the film camera for the essayist's pen, sits down at the table and begins a fascinating story about his African travels...

Only in Africa can you “sit for tea” with a kudu antelope, a monkey, a zebra, a hyena and an attractive woman. And besides, two white owls will watch you and accompany the tea drinking with sour comments. But such a meeting is possible in Africa only in one place - on the large “fur trapping farm” of Carr Hartley, located at the foot of Mount Kenya...

Lewis Cotlow