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Africa Solo

Author : Mark Beaumont
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473526957
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Africa Solo written by Mark Beaumont and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his latest world record attempt - solo, the length of Africa, intending to ride to Cape Town in under 50 days. Seven years since he smashed the world record for cycling round the world, this would be his toughest trip yet. And he would set a new mark that would simply break the limits of endurance. Despite illness, mechanical faults, attempted robbery and stone-throwing children, as well as dehydration in the deserts and unprecedented levels of exhaustion, Mark completed the journey in just 41 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes, after cycling 6,762 miles, spending 439 hours in the saddle (sometimes up to 16 hours a day) and climbing 190,355 feet through 8 countries. It was an astonishing journey, and one that will fascinate and grip the reader. From the obvious dangers of Egypt, Sudan and Kenya, over the unpaved, muddy, mountainous roads of Ethiopia, through the beautiful grasslands of Tanzania and Zambia, to riding at night in Botswana in the company of elephants and giraffes, Mark brings Africa to life in all its complex glory, friendship and curiosity, while inspiring us all to question the bounds of what is possible.

Africa Solo

Author : Kevin Kertscher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883642945
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Africa Solo written by Kevin Kertscher and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrying only the gear that could fit into a backpack, filmaker Kevin Kertscher sets out on a perilous journey to cross the African continent by foot, by thumb, by bus and by boat.

Solo

Author : Kwame Alexander
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 0310761905
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Solo written by Kwame Alexander and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess is a New York Times bestseller! Kirkus Reviews said Solo is, “A contemporary hero’s journey, brilliantly told.” Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs. Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he’d give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father. In reality, the only thing Blade and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives inside them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel away forever. But when a long-held family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could bring Blade the freedom and love he’s been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift. Solo: Is written by New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Book Award-winner Kwame Alexander Showcases Kwame’s signature intricacy, intimacy, and poetic style, by exploring what it means to finally go home An #OwnVoices novel that features a BIPOC protagonist on a search for his roots and identity Received great reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus. If you enjoy Solo, check out Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess.

Traversa

Author : Fran Sandham
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 0715645536
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Traversa written by Fran Sandham and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traversa" is a fascinating account of the hardships and hilarity Fran Sandham experienced during his epic solo journey on foot across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean through Namibia, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. Inspired by the legendary crossings of the great explorers, Sandham left the daily grind of London to undertake an extraordinary adventure. "Traversa" describes his brushes with danger in the form of lions and snakes, land mines and bandits, his 2-month battle with a syphilitic donkey, malaria and the everyday troubles that arise when walking across Africa. Underpinned with stories of the great explorers themselves - Livingstone, Stanley and Galton among others - "Traversa" is the written proof of Sandham's grit, determination and sheer obsession with the continent of Africa.

Woman Alone Around Africa: A Tale of Courage and Overcoming the Seemingly Impossible

Author : Jo Rust
Publisher : National Library of South Africa
ISBN 13 : 9780620813983
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Woman Alone Around Africa: A Tale of Courage and Overcoming the Seemingly Impossible written by Jo Rust and published by National Library of South Africa. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo Rust is one of the world's most prominent female adventurers. In 2011 she set out to become the first woman in history to circumnavigate the African continent on her own. No support. No back up vehicles. A story she shares in Woman Alone Around Africa - a tale of courage and overcoming the seemingly impossible. First Jo attempted to travel around Africa on her bicycle, she made it all the way to northern Angola, 3500 kilometers away from home, until her bicycle was stolen by 4 machete-wielding men. Then, in a miraculous turn of events the Angolan government steps in to become the main sponsor of Jo's journey as she starts all over again, this time on a motorcycle, even though she had never ridden a motorcycle before. Woman Alone Around Africa is about so much more than just an epic adventure. It's about the people in Jo's life who helped make her dream a reality and the life changing experiences had along the way. It's about having enough courage to do something even when you are afraid and overcoming crippling fear and a life-long battle against depression to achieve something extraordinary.

Going Solo

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141965339
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Going Solo written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa. 'They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton, and they were astounded when they came upon my still-breathing body lying in the sand nearby.' In 1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF. His account of his experiences in Africa, crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery from his horrific injuries in Alexandria, flying a Hurricane as Greece fell to the Germans, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction. 'Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror' Evening Standard 'A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship' The New York Times Book Review Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Going Home to Africa

Author : Dot Bekker
Publisher : National Archives of Zimbabwe
ISBN 13 : 9781779259943
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (599 download)

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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.

Solo: the Story of an African Wild Dog

Author : Hugo van Lawick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 9780395183212
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Solo: the Story of an African Wild Dog written by Hugo van Lawick and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1974 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travelling While Black

Author : Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 178738523X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Travelling While Black written by Nanjala Nyabola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.

Immersed in West Africa: My Solo Journey Across Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau (Full Color Version)

Author : Terry Lister
Publisher : Travels with Terry
ISBN 13 : 9781945873300
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Immersed in West Africa: My Solo Journey Across Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau (Full Color Version) written by Terry Lister and published by Travels with Terry. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Africa! Immersed in West Africa is NOT one of those cookie-cutter guide books. This is the powerful on-the-ground diary of one man's solo journey through West Africa. For roughly 60 days, Terry Lister traveled across Senegal, Mauritania, the Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. What he experienced touched both his spirit and his soul. The ups and downs of travel, the people, the transport, the weather, the food, the haggling...he welcomed it all.From harrowing experiences with border police, to day-long travel on crowded mini-buses, Lister's accounts of daily life shed light on the real side of Africa, and are sure to both entertain and educate you.Travel is the best educator and Lister shows us that while Africa is still the brunt of many jokes and misconceptions, it is more than worth the visit. If you are someone who's been a bit afraid to travel into Africa beyond the big tours, this book will inspire you to step out with courage and faith. While your experience will be your own, it is one guaranteed to inspire and motivate you to be the best version of yourself.So let's step into this adventure together!

Congo Solo

Author : Emily Hahn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773539042
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Congo Solo written by Emily Hahn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers atThe New Yorker– her first by-line appeared there in 1926, her last in 1996. She was also the author of fifty-three books, and, had her 1933 travel memoir,Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days of the Great Depression, it might well have been hailed as a classic of the genre, alongside Dinesen'sOut of Africa. In many ways Hahn's vivid account of her eight-month sojourn in a remote medical clinic was years ahead of its time. A woman who lived life on her own terms, Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer whenCongo Solowas published. Here – restored to the form she had intended – is Hahn's unforgettable narrative, a vivid, provocative, and at times disturbing firsthand account of the racism, brutality, sexism, and exploitation that were everyday life realities under Belgium's iron-fisted colonial rule. Until now, the few copies ofCongo Soloin circulation were the adulterated version, which the author altered after pressure from her publisher and threats of litigation from the main character's family. This edition makes available a lost treasure of women's travel writing that shocks and impresses, while shedding valuable light on the gender and race politics of the period.

Solo

Author : Hugo Van Lawick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solo written by Hugo Van Lawick and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man who Cycled the World

Author : Mark Beaumont
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552158445
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Man who Cycled the World written by Mark Beaumont and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had begun his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than 18,000 miles on his own through some of the harshest conditions one man and his bicycle can endure, camping wild at night and suffering from constant ailments.

Boy and Going Solo

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014137845X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Boy and Going Solo written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy and Going Solo is the whole of Roald Dahl's extraordinary autobiography in one volume. Roald Dahl wasn't always a writer. Once he was just a schoolboy. Have you ever wondered what he was like growing up? In BOY you'll find out why he and his friends took revenge on the beastly Mrs Pratchett who ran the sweet shop. He remembers what it was like taste-testing chocolate for Cadbury's and he even reveals how his nose was nearly sliced off. Then in GOING SOLO you'll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling. Roald Dahl tells his story in his own words - and it's all TRUE. And now you can listen to all of Roald Dahl's novels for children on Roald Dahl Audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.

Native Stranger

Author : Eddy L. Harris
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679742326
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Native Stranger written by Eddy L. Harris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eddy Harris went to Africa, he ended up learning a great deal about his own identity as a black American as well as witnessing both the splendor and squalor of the continent. From encounters with beggars and bureaucrats to a visit to Soweto and a hellish night in a Liberian jail, Harris evokes Africa with candor and vividness.

Sound of Africa!

Author : Louise Meintjes
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330141
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Sound of Africa! written by Louise Meintjes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African politics, and global political economy./div

A New Day Dawns

Author : Terry Lister
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book A New Day Dawns written by Terry Lister and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's Back! In his first book, Immersed in West Africa, Terry Lister took readers on a harrowing West African adventure in Senegal, Mauritania, the Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. In A New Day Dawns, the second installment of the Travels With Terry Series, he takes us to the edge as he ventures into Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana. This highly anticipated release is both amusing and historical, as Terry guides curious explorers beyond the tourist traps and pushes the proverbial and literal boundaries in search of adventure. Old and new experiences collide to create the perfect maelstrom of confidence and trepidation as he navigates the African coast. From pristine beaches and hectic markets to dense forests and ancient castles, Terry delivers an unforgettable adventure that is guaranteed to spark a soul-stirring experience for his readers. If you are ready, let's step into this adventure - again!