1. Setting off -- 2. Adapting to Africa -- 3. Rhodes University -- 4. Driving to Giraffeland -- 5. First days at Fleur de Lys -- 6. Settling in at Fleyr de Lys -- 7. October -- 8. November -- 9. December -- 10. Dar es Salaam -- 11. Zanzibar -- 12. Up Kilimanjaro -- 13. To study east African giraffe? -- 14. Heading south -- 15. Mbeya to Umtali -- 16. Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls -- 17. Back at Fleur de Lys -- 18. Leaving the giraffe -- 19. Return to England
Summary
Annotation Memoir of one of first female zoologists in Africa. Documents Dagg's study of giraffe. Examines racism, colonialism, and life as a woman scientist in the 1950s
