Author : Archibald Edmund Filby
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1922476455
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)
Book Synopsis Horizon Fever 1 by : Archibald Edmund Filby
Download or read book Horizon Fever 1 written by Archibald Edmund Filby and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived. Proclaimed "e;the World's most travelled motorist"e;, A E Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars.Horizon Fever is an honest, colourful, often shocking account; a snapshot of bygone days and attitudes. It tells of missionaries, pygmies, big-game hunting, gold mining, crossing the Sahara and swimming in the Nile with crocodiles. One of Archie's companions was a monkey called Congo. Another was a dog that adopted him, until it was killed and dragged up a tree by a leopard. Archie himself comes across as a courageous, feisty, quick-tempered, bossy little man, but full of fun, generous and never one to bear a grudge.Thanks to Archie's records and photographs, we have a unique glimpse of an astonishing feat of endurance, nearly 100 years after it was completed. --Victoria Twead