Anthony Smith and Douglas Botting recreate the fictitious journey of Jules Verne. Traveling by balloon from Zanzibar across the sea channel to the mainland of Africa. The balloonists are forced to land in the African bush.
C. J. P. Ionides is a big-game hunter turned naturalist now famous as a collector of venomous snakes. Margaret Lane spent six weeks in Tanganyika, watching him handling dangerous snakes and learning to assist him in catching them.
A film by Vitold de Golish highlighting the former splendours of the Indian ruling princes, unchanged since the days of the Nabobs, of Clive and Warren Hastings, but now unlikely ever to be seen again.