Guide To The Birds Of East Africa

For the past three years, the widower Mr Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, who leads the weekly bird walks of the East African Ornithological Society. Just as he is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball, who should pop up but Malik's nemesis from his school days. So begins the competition: whoever can identify the most species of birds in one week's time gets the privilege of asking the object of his affection to the ball.