Invisible Ink is the ‘most brilliant climate crisis memoir the world has never heard of, and no one wants to read’, according to the entirely unbiased author. It is a rollicking, white-knuckled ride through 20 years of misadventures on the frontline of climate reporting in Africa. By science journalist and author Leo Joubert

Invisible Ink is the ‘most brilliant climate crisis memoir the world has never heard of, and no one wants to read’, according to the entirely unbiased author.

CHAPTER 1

The poet Atticus wrote: may he arrive at his death late, in love, and a little bit drunk.

I arrive at my 50th late, sweating like a carthorse, and once again having lost my keys.

I nearly don’t make it at all.

Half Way Home