abstract:Shelby Tucker (James Shelby Tucker, Jr.) is a dual-national American and British(1) lawyer, journalist and the author of Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma, the story of his trek from China to India through the Kachin highlands of northern Burma,(2) Burma: The Curse of Independence, a ‘plain man’s guide’ to Burma’s perennial strife,(3) and The Last Banana: Dancing with the Watu, about David Livingstone’s quest for ‘God’s highway’, the role of the Greeks in bringing the ‘three Cs’ (commerce, Christianity and civilization) to Tanganyika, and Tucker’s African travels.