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Author : Bob Gibbons
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841624942
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Africa Overland written by Bob Gibbons and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide for adventurers crossing the continent since its first edition in 1991.
Author : Dan Grec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995198968
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book The Road Chose Me Volume 2 written by Dan Grec and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for even more wild places and new experiences, Dan became determined to explore 'off the map' in Africa. From the mighty Sahara Desert in the north to the dense equatorial jungles of the Congo and the open grasslands of Southern Africa, Dan turned his biggest dream into reality. Over the course of three years Dan's second major expedition spanned fifty-four thousand miles through thirty-five unique African countries. THE ADVENTURE WAS A THOUSAND TIMES BIGGER THAN HE DREAMED POSSIBLE. After exploring the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Argentina Dan became hooked on the freedom of global overland travel, and he only wanted more. New languages, exotic foods, stunning landscapes and local people with an entirely different outlook became Dan's everyday life. As the months turned into years, through highlights and despair Dan gained a new appreciation for what it truly means to be alive. Viewing our modern world through African eyes gave Dan a new perspective, and he was pulled in by the endless joy, laughter and kindness at every turn. While the landscapes and wildlife are undeniably breathtaking, it is the natural warmth of the African people that is truly unforgettable. All across the continent Dan was welcomed with love and generosity, and now he will never be the same.
Author : David Hardham
Publisher : David Hardham
ISBN 13 : 1310841705
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Africa Overland written by David Hardham and published by David Hardham. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of a 22 year old Australian, we get to hear firsthand the trip of a life time as he crosses the African continent from north to south with a group of fellow adventurers with a specialist overland travel company in 1971. Crossing the Sahara desert takes weeks as obstacles are overcome and the harshness of desert life is experienced. This is followed by navigating almost impassable roads in the former Belgian Congo before entering the vast plains and game parks of East Africa. Living and working in apartheid South Africa we are told of the experiences encountered and people met. The final part of the journey is returning to London but by unconventional means. Who would ever think of hitchhiking between Jo’Burg and Nairobi on a shoestring budget before getting a Charter Flight back to London? Numerous photographs, maps and other paraphernalia are provided to assist the armchair explorer capture the spirit of adventure of the amazing journey.
Author : Dan Grec
Publisher : Road Chose Me
ISBN 13 : 9780995198913
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book The Road Chose Me Volume 1 written by Dan Grec and published by Road Chose Me. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dan set out to drive his Jeep from the Northern tip of Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on the Southern tip of South America, he had no idea how much the adventure would change his life. Over the course of two years, Dan's expedition spanned forty thousand miles through sixteen countries. Now he will never be the same. After years of saving, dreaming and planning, Dan wanted to find out if an ordinary guy can achieve the extraordinary. With no sponsorship, a modest savings account and a willingness to learn Spanish, Dan threw himself in. Going solo, with no GPS and sleeping in a ground tent, Dan wanted to experience everything the Americas have to offer. From poking lava with a stick and hiking among world-famous mountains to corrupt military and camping with Ecuadorian locals - every day provided something new. With his eyes and ears open to the world around him, Dan met many interesting and thought-provoking characters. With their guidance and prodding, and by using their unique perspective, Dan was able to learn many valuable life lessons. Running to the beat of a different drum, Latin America was the perfect classroom for Dan to view our modern work-a-day world through an entirely new lens.
Author : Piet Buys
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Road Network Upgrading and Overland Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Piet Buys and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research suggests that isolation from regional and international markets has contributed significantly to poverty in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Numerous empirical studies identify poor transport infrastructure and border restrictions as significant deterrents to trade expansion. In response, the African Development Bank has proposed an integrated network of functional roads for the subcontinent. Drawing on new econometric results, the authors quantify the trade-expansion potential and costs of such a network. They use spatial network analysis techniques to identify a network of primary roads connecting all Sub-Saharan capitals and other cities with populations over 500,000. The authors estimate current overland trade flows in the network using econometrically-estimated gravity model parameters, road transport quality indicators, actual road distances, and estimates of economic scale for cities in the network. Then they simulate the effect of feasible continental upgrading by setting network transport quality at a level that is functional, but less highly developed than existing roads in countries like South Africa and Botswana. The authors assess the costs of upgrading with econometric evidence from a large World Bank database of road project costs in Africa. Using a standard approach to forecast error estimation, they derive a range of potential benefits and costs. Their baseline results indicate that continental network upgrading would expand overland trade by about $250 billion over 15 years, with major direct and indirect benefits for the rural poor. Financing the program would require about $20 billion for initial upgrading and $1 billion annually for maintenance. The authors conclude with a discussion of supporting institutional arrangements and the potential cost of implementing them.
Author : Lizzie Williams
Publisher : Struik Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Africa Overland written by Lizzie Williams and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overland Africa is a souvenir and guide to the nine countries included on the Kenya to Cape Town route: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Author : Iain Finlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Africa Overland written by Iain Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pete Mandra
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462803733
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Overland written by Pete Mandra and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered if you could survive a six-week, barebones trek through Africa? With your partner?!? And a truckload of annoying strangers?!? Experience Africa through the eyes of Paul DuPree, who, with his future wife at his side, quit his job to participate in a humor-filled 'overland' journey across Africa with some of the strangest fellow travelers you'll ever meet. The wild animals? Dangerous. Life on the road? Rugged. You'd sell your soul for the taste of a cheeseburger. And the South Africa to Kenya itinerary? Brutal. Like your tour guides. Yet no hardship tests your sanity nearly as much as your irritating travel companions do... Overland is your hilarious ticket to a pain, hunger and mosquito free visit to Africa. And best of all, unlike Paul, you have the luxury of being able to get away from your traveling companions before that burning desire creeps in to strangle them.....
Author : Michael Mewshaw
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582434344
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Between Terror and Tourism written by Michael Mewshaw and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his 65th birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000–mile overland trip across North Africa. Arriving in Egypt during food riots, he heads west into Libya, where billions in oil money have produced little except citizens eager to flee to Europe or join the jihad in Iraq. In Tunis, Mewshaw visits an abandoned Star Wars movie set where Al Qaeda has just kidnapped two tourists. Ignoring U.S. Embassy warnings he crosses into Algeria, traveling through mountain towns and seething metropolises where 200,000 people have died during more than a decade of sectarian violence. Searching for the tombs of seven monks murdered by Islamic fundamentalists, he reaches a village where six more people have been beheaded the day before. When he interviews a repentant terrorist responsible for 5,000 deaths, the man praises the Boy Scouts for training him. By contrast, the Moroccan city of Tangier seems almost tame. But then he meets the last literary protégé of Paul Bowles who accuses Bowles of plagiarism and murder. In the end, the reader, like the author, is immersed in a fascinating adventure that's sometimes tragic, often funny, occasionally terrifying and always a revelation of a strange place and its people.
Author : Graeme Robert Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620719902
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Travel the Planet Overland written by Graeme Robert Bell and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the Planet Overland was written to inspire others to explore this magnificent rock we all call home and the core message is simply that anyone sufficiently inspired can travel the planet overland. We take the readers hand and walk them through the long term world travelers reality, introducing the different types of overland travelers and the vehicles they prefer based on the fluidity of their cash flow. We then guide readers through the financial and emotional preparations for overland travel and provide the tools for overland travel success!
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 061883933X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The Last Train to Zona Verde written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.
Author : Dan Grec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995198951
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book 999 Days Around Africa written by Dan Grec and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join photographer Dan Grec on his epic 999 day expedition circumnavigating the entire African continent. With vibrant images from 35 African nations, Dan beautifully captures the warmth and happiness of everyday people, the wild surprise of safari and the astonishing landscapes found throughout the mighty continent. Covering 54,000 miles, Dan fulfilled his life-long dream of exploring Africa while living, cooking, sleeping and traveling at the helm of his Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. A must for any adventurous spirit, you will be captivated by images of Africa and her beautiful people, and may just begin your own grand African adventure.
Author : Siân Pritchard-Jones
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841622835
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Africa Overland written by Siân Pritchard-Jones and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Be vigilant when driving through Africa: camels are careless when crossing the road and women carrying waterpots are little more watchful' warn the authors of this fifth edition of Africa Overland. They also give updated information on each country's political and security situation (Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia are on the up; since this guide's last edition, security in Western Sudan and Eastern Chad has turned sour); provide an expanded Route Outlines section including information on border crossings; and offer revised recommendations on vehicles including practical coverage on buying a vehicle, maintenance and driving.
Author : Chris Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873756768
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Sahara Overland written by Chris Scott and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether readers are traveling by 4WD or camel, this acclaimed guide covers all aspects Saharan and includes 10,000 miles of itineraries in Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, and Egypt.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618446872
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Dark Star Safari written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first new travel book in eight years, the endearingly irascible Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry and train.
Author : Dot Bekker
Publisher : National Archives of Zimbabwe
ISBN 13 : 9781779259943
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Going Home to Africa written by Dot Bekker and published by National Archives of Zimbabwe. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dot Bekker was born and raised in Bulawayo in the south-west of Zimbabwe. After thirty-eight years away ¬- twenty of those in Europe - she decided to return to the country of her birth; however rather than hop on a plane, Dot chose to drive there: all by herself at the age of sixty, in a twenty-year-old 2WD Ford Transit van that she converted into her home. Dot spent eight and a half months covering 20,000km of some of the toughest overlanding routes in the world, through West and Central Africa. This is her story.Follow Dot's extraordinary 20,000km adventure in her first book, Going Home to Africa, where she describes the ups and downs she faced over the course of her grand expedition: the countries, the people, insane traffic, corrupt borders, marriage proposals, perilous potholes and good old Africa Roadside Assistance.Her fascinating journal also highlights the varied landscapes and cultural history of Africa that she discovered along the way, the strange, funny and sometimes terrifying situations that she encountered, and the numerous challenges that she and BlueBelle endured - all the while navigating her own personal internal journey.At the time of writing Dot still lives in and travels with BlueBelle whenever possible and can be seen out and about meeting people and making things happen in her beloved Zimbabwe. Since her return to Bulawayo, Dot has been tirelessly seeking ways to improve the future for rural communities in Zimbabwe. Her twenty years of business coaching experience is helping to enhance their traditional lifestyle with 21st Century technology in order to actively encourage sustainable development. Another of her passions is giving vulnerable and disadvantaged girls access to education, to which end she created the non-profit organisation, Kusasa. She very much believes that making progress in the gender equality/equity agenda through education is vital for her country.She is also already working on the sequel to Going Home in Africa, which will detail the experience of returning to her homeland and the many joys and challenges she has faced since her return, it will be titled Being Home in Africa.Alongside all this, she has also decided to encourage more women to visit Africa and will be running small women-only group tours from 2022 in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. Watch her Facebook page for details of Going Home to Africa Tours.To find out about Dot's journey as it continues, look at @goinghometoafrica on Facebook and Instagram or on the website www.goinghometoafrica.com for blogs and updates. To find out about the girls' education fund, look at @kusasa.africa on Facebook and Instagram or on the website www.kusasa.africa.
Author : Tim Slessor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908493208
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)
Download or read book First Overland written by Tim Slessor and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys – half way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the desrts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were ‘just too many rivers and too few roads’. But no-one really knew … In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had no money, no cars, nothing. But with a cool audacity, which was to become characteristic, they set to work – wheedling and cajoling. First, they coaxed the BBC to come up with some film for a possible TV series. They then gently persuaded the manufacturers to lend them two factory-fresh Land Rovers. A publisher was even sweet-talked into giving them an advance on a book. By the time they were ready to go, their sponsors (more than 80 of them) ranged from whiskey distillers to the makers of collapsible buckets. In late 1955, they set off. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two very weary Land Rovers, escorted by police outriders, rolled into Singapore – to flash bulbs and champagne. Now, fifty years on, their book, ‘First Overland’, is republished – with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. After all, it was he who gave them that film.
