Author's third book of memoirs, story of Packer's African travels through - Swaziland, Bechauanaland, and Rhodesia, the Congo, Nigeria etc while her husband was Commander-In-Chief of the South Atlantic Station.....Woven into author's pattern of Africa, with its "gold, and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks." are the glowing threads of past history and history in the making, of comedy and drama, and here and there, pathos, and a great deal of plain common sense about the racial problems of her own country......From the "Apes and Ivory is the story of her African travels which included extensive tours of the Union and the three British Protectorates - beautiful Basutoland and Swaziland, both swamped by a wave of diretlo murders, and lonely Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama's country; the Rhodesias in the throes of growing-pains; the Congo "emerging into a tropical welfare state"; and the island of Madagascar, where she witnessed the Sacrifice to the Crocodiles. She went also to Northern Nigeria, "the mysterious ebony world of Black Africa"; Lagos with its juju; the Gold Coast; Sierra Leone, Gambia, French Senegal and the "fantastic and perilous" Ivory Coast."
