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SO entertaining, great writing with laugh out loud humor thrown in. The excerpts from the Livingstone and Stanley expeditions were quite interesting. One of the best travel narratives I've read (and I've read a LOT of them)!
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Travel narrative is a subjective taste. So, I always feel a little guilty giving a relatively low rating to a book with very good points. Sandham walks from the Skeleton Coast in Namibia to the Indian Ocean in Tanzania. He follows a strict rule of accepting no rides and he does not have a support team nor a sponsor, so he does the entire trip on a shoestring budget. There are several sections where Sandham does a nice job of succinctly explaining important historical events in the regions he pas
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Jun 09, 2010
Kimberly
marked it as to-read
