Perhaps I misinterpreted the information and the review on this book but while I was not expecting a coffee-table picture book - indeed wanted something more - I was not expecting a text book in Readers Digest style layout, more suitable for a school-child than a grown-up - especially at the price. Added to which I was not enamoured of the American spelling nor the American political slant. As someone who had spent a number of years in another part of Africa, I was wanting to give it as a present to a doctor who grew up in Malawi; so, not having had time to review it beforehand, I was concerned when the unopened package indicated a very slender volume (not much weightier than a magazine); and considerably embarrassed when he did open it and we saw the content.