Amongst the animals skins, the arm bands and the long strings of beads, they had a startling item of clothing: brassieres. They had been to Addis; they had seen the future… And now they were wearing it. In this place, they seemed oddly indecent.
Stanley Stewart
is the author of three highly acclaimed travel books
and several-hundred articles based on journeys across five continents, for
which he has won numerous journalism awards. He is a contributing editor of
Condé Nast Traveller and his work appears regularly in the Sunday Times. He has
also contributed to the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Independent and the
Times. He writes for the National Geographic Traveler in the US, the Sunday
Times in South Africa and the Australian.