# Quote — William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa

> Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody’s expansive unmown lawn.

- Author: [William Boyd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd.md)
- Book: [A Good Man in Africa](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(writer)#A_Good_Man_in_Africa_(1981)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/like-rome-nkongsamba

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