Geoffrey Spicer-Simson - Further Reading

Further Reading

In 2004 Spicer-Simson's story was retold in a book by Giles Foden called Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika. In 2007, Christopher Dow recounted the same story in a book titled Lord of the Loincloth; the same year, Swiss author Alex Capus published the novel "A Question Of Time" which depicts Spicer-Simson as one of the multiple (anti-)heroes.

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