

Jennifer McVeigh Recalls Camping Wild on her Honeymoon in Kenya and Tanzania
I have been on many journeys in Africa – or ‘safaris’ as they say in Swahili – and all of them fostered a deep love of wilderness, but...


Driving out of Nairobi
A Journey in the Footsteps of a Character Leopard at the Door begins with a journey. Rachel – the young girl in the novel – is returning...


The Books behind Leopard at the Door
“In the biggest, brownest, muddiest river in Africa…” The Enormous Crocodile waded into my four year old life with a terrifying snap of...


Reading Group Guide for Leopard at the Door
Over the course of the novel, Rachel—though always one of the more progressive characters—develops a more nuanced, less naive view of the...