Africana, Savannah Blue, Burton and Speke, and The Three Hunters are all novels by William Harrison that have Africa as their setting and theme. Each is a different kind of fiction. The Three Hunters he conceived as a comedy about a dysfunctional family and the youngest son's search for love in all the wrong places. It parodies the hunting stories of Hemingway and others. Savannah Blue, Harrison's best-selling novel, is a mystery set partly in Africa, partly in Washington, D.C., fascinating for its characterization of Quentin Clare as a clever and dedicated killer and its deft handling of a large cast of characters and a complicated plot. Burton and Speke is a fictionalized treatment of the relationship of John Harming Speke and Richard Francis Burton, their attempts to discover the headwaters of the Nile, and the consequences of those efforts, deeply researched and convincingly presented...