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Documents the author's three-thousand-mile trek across Africa, a foot journey marked by such challenges as land mines, a syphilitic donkey, and giant cockroaches, in an account that also muses on the experiences of Victorian explorers. Reprint.
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Review:
A classical account of one man's struggle to test himself against Nature --Daily Telegraph
Sandham is a likeable and self-deprecating narrator, and I found myself increasingly gripped --The Observer
High above the vast pile of African-adventure travelogues --New York Times
About the Author:
Sandham is a likeable and self-deprecating narrator, and I found myself increasingly gripped --The Observer
High above the vast pile of African-adventure travelogues --New York Times
Fran Sandham was an editor at "Rough Guides", and worked as a bookseller and in the voluntary sector before that. He has travelled in over 40 countries. He lives in Brighton and London.
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- PublisherOverlook Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1590201647
- ISBN 13 9781590201640
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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