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title: "Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Paperback – Illustrated, April 26, 2005"
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# Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Paperback – Illustrated, April 26, 2005

**Brand:** alexandra fuller
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- **What is this?** Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Paperback – Illustrated, April 26, 2005 by alexandra fuller
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It is a terrific read as are all of her books and is ...
*by J***N on April 12, 2015*

This is a very well-crafted book from the point of view of a young woman growing up in Rhodesia with her parents and sister. This book chronicles her friendship and travels with a somewhat rebellious and broken-down African soldier, the unnamed K, as they journey through his life and her insight. It touches her life in a very spiritual and emotionally informed way. It is not mushy emotional but insightful in a way that becomes a mirror for the reader as is all of her work. It is a terrific read as are all of her books and is sprinkled with African colloquial slang. Don't worry, a small lexicon in the back defines her terms. (And don't worry, what it means to "scribble the cat" is only one interesting turn of the phrase that will delight the reader. She is a very talented writer, very talented. She is a word-crafter and I would recommend this to anyone who is an avid reader of anything. Book clubs should pick this or ANY of her books!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Africa Through the Eyes of a Proud African (Who Happens to Be White)
*by B***K on October 22, 2014*

I read Ms. Fuller's first book strictly by accident. I thought Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight would have been a political view of the struggle in Rhodesia between the white settlers and the indigenous people. It wasn't, however, and while at first I was disappointed as I kept reading I found a brilliantly told tale of a family that lived in Rhodesia that is very similar to many families I know all over America.Scribbling the Cat is another Fuller memoir set in Africa, and this one is even more personal. The first book tells the story of the Fuller family, and as the mother is the focus of the family the story is truly a mother daughter tale. This book is a story about who Alexandra Fuller became, not how she grew up, and I love it.Just as in the first book, this is a story that is distinctly rooted in Africa, but if you change some of the names and some of the locations, it truly has played out in America as well. Fuller meets a former Rhodesian soldier, warrior more like it, and is awestruck by his lifestyle. He is now a gentleman farmer living in an area that doesn't have many white gentleman farmers, especially ones who in the past were killing their African gentleman farmer counterparts.Fuller does a great job of bringing the reader along on the journey. Her writing style reminds me in a way of Hemingway. Hemingway had a way of making me feel the heat in Key Largo, feeling the strength of the fish in Old Man. Fuller really made me feel the mud on the trail to the farm, the smell of the fruit bearing trees she passes, the heat from the African sun, and most important I felt the affection that the old soldier began to feel for Ms. Fuller, and the confusion Ms. Fuller felt for him.All in all a great book by a great writer. Alexandra Fuller is one of the truly great writers alive today and while she lives in America her heart still resides in the Africa of her childhood. She seems keenly aware of the problems the white Rhodesians inflicted upon their native residents. I definitely feel her sense of, I hate to say it because it is far more complex, but guilt for what happened to the Africans subject to white Rhodesian rule. Her escort, the former Rhodesian soldier, was part of the problem, a very bloody part of the problem, and she truly struggles to get past the things he did. She doesn't make him a villain, but she doesn't deify him either.I can also feel that she would take issue with my use of African in that last paragraph. When I say Rhodesian I am thinking of them as white European settlers. In Ms. Fuller's case, however, she is just as African as any black African subject to Rhodesian rule. Reading between the lines Ms. Fuller is in many ways a victim of the same colonialism many black Africans suffered from. She was white, but hardly wealthy.Throughout this journey I truly had a sense that I am seeing Africa through the eyes of an African, something that Ms. Fuller can't shake, because it is who she is. One great thing I got from this book was fair notice that my simple categorization of the problem, this is white, this is black, this is African, this is European, the European whites were oppressive, the Africans are the victims, speaks to my ignorance of the reality many people are living in these former colonial areas that can't be categorized. Good people had to do bad things to become free, good people did bad things to serve a belief they later realized was wrong.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another winner from Alexandra Fuller.
*by A***A on July 17, 2025*

Scribbling The Cat falls right in line with all of Alexandra Fuller's "African" books. She writes about what she has intimate knowledge of, and she is able to put her experiences down on paper in a very captivating writing style. Don't hesitate to acquire Scribbling The Cat, you'll enjoy your read.

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