Title: Bill Bryson's African Diary
Author: Bill Bryson
Rating: ★★★★
(In reference to the bareness of their hotel:)
"Come in. I'd offer you something from the minibar, but I don't seem to have one. Pull up a chair - oh, no! There is no chair. Well, please make full use of the wastebasket."
"We'll buy you a rope or a bottle of poison." - Chinese slogan for women who said they'd rather kill themselves rather than have an abortion (as part of the One Child Policy.)