Aaron Latham

The bolder the writer, the bigger the game. For many, like Hemmingway, Isak Dinesen, Jospeh Conrad, and now Aaron Latham, the biggest game of all is Africa itself. Suffering from what he calls "the rainly season in the soul", oppressed by despair and self-doubt, Latham sets out on a safari of the spirit in search of himself. The wild and wondrous continent of Africa becomes the setting for a work as psychologically compelling as William Styron's DARKNESS VISIBLE.

Latham takes us on an extraordinary odyssey across the plains of Kenya and into the jungles of Rwanda. We witness the terrifying beauty of cheetahs stalking their prey, observe the touching drama of elephants with their young, meet Dian Fossey's famed gorillas, and listen to Richard Leakey's dire warning about the shrinking African wilderness. But the true subject of THE FROZEN LEOPARD is Latham himself, as he follows in the footsteps of our million-year-old ancestors in search of the dark and distant frontiers of our collective past.