In the Arms of Africa by Roy Richard Grinker

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <title>In the Arms of Africa by Roy Richard Grinker</title> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.colinturnbull.com" /> <meta name"keywords" content="chronology, books by Colin Turnbull, birth certificate, timeline, dalai lama, United Negro Fund, Makerere University, Oxford, Newton Beal, Peter Brook, Tibet, Thubten Norbu"> <meta name="description" content="In The Arms of Africa, The Life of Colin M. Turnbull, by Roy Richard Grinker. This is the chronology of Colin Turnbull's life."> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript"> if ( top.location.href!= window.location.href ) { top.location.href = window.location.href } </script> <script type="text/javascript"> if ( top != self ) { } </script> </head> <body background="background_africa_only.gif" link="#0000CC" vlink="#993399" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="6" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="132" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table border="0" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td valign="top" height="175"><img src="entryphoto.gif" width="132" height="182"></td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <td height="100%" nowrap valign="top"> <a href="authorappearances.html"> </a><a href="authorappearances.html"> </a> <a href="excerpt3.html"> </a> <a href="excerpt3.html"> </a> <a href="authorappearances.html"> </a> <a href="authorappearances.html"> </a>   </tr> </table> </td> <td width="16"> <td width="847"> <div align="left"> <img src="title.gif" width="398" height="108"> An upper class Oxford-educated Englishman, Colin Turnbull's life long affair with the African Pygmies made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and '70s. In an intimate portrait of a remarkable man-at various times a gold-miner, builder of "The African Queen" and anti-death penalty advocate-Grinker describes how Turnbull fell in love with a beautiful, poor African American named Joe Towles who became as much Turnbull's heroic creation as did the Pygmies. For 30 years, they lived as an openly gay, interracial couple in New York City and rural Virginia until Joe's death of AIDS in 1988. Devastated, Turnbull buried his own spirit in a second coffin laid next to Towles, gave away most of his money, and until his own death from AIDS in 1994, lived as a Buddhist monk tutored by the Dalai Lama's eldest brother. This is a compelling story of a celebrity scholar, his sexuality and his passion for a fiercely lived life. Paperback In the Arms of Africa will be published in paperback in November, 2001 by the University of Chicago Press. 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