Ludwig Ritter von H?hnel lived a fascinating life-he was an Austrian subject who achieved distinction as an African explorer, a naval officer, and a courtier. The turbulent years preceding the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918 are revived through H?hnel's vibrant memoir. An explorer of East Africa in the era of Livingstone and Stanley, H?hnel mapped vast areas of modern-day Kenya and Tanzania, and was among the first Europeans to see Lake...