Twenty-eight years ago I wrote a review of African Ark, the mammoth coffee table book about the peoples and places of the Horn of Africa that displayed spectacular double-page pictures by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher.
“African Ark is not an ordinary book,” I eulogised then. “In fact it is almost not a book at all. Within its 14 by 10.5 inch covers lie an entire art gallery and museum…” I concluded then that; “there will never be anything to match it.”
