So-so Skinny Latte
James Francken: Giles Foden’s Zanzibar, 19 September 2002
“... the fact that a number of the great travellers – ‘Livingstone and Stanley, Burton and Speke, Cameron and Thomson’ – sent their telegraphs from the island. Kapuściński admires the technology of ‘long-ago days’. In Zanzibar, old technology no longer has that allure; when Nick discovers a ‘nub of copper’ that was part of the telegraph ... ”