Traversa: A Solo Walk Across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean - Couverture rigide

Sandham, Fran

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1590200365 ISBN 13 : 9781590200360

Editeur : Overlook Books, 2008

Synopsis

Traversa 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 such explorers as David Livingstone, Sir H. M. Stanley, and Sir Francis Galton. 10,000 first printing.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

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

Présentation de l'éditeur

Inspired by the great explorers, Fran Sandham left the daily grind of London to undertake an extraordinary adventure. 'Traversa' is the funny and engaging story of his epic 3,000-mile walk across an entire continent, from Namibia's Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar ...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Overlook Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1590200365
• ISBN 13: 9781590200360
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible