Traversa / Fran Sandham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandham, Fran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sandham, Fran--Travel--Africa.

Sandham, Fran.

Walking--Africa.

Walking.

Africa--Description and travel.

Africa.

Physical Description:

ix, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Duckworth Overlook, 2007.

Contents:

Prologue: Swakopmund, Namibia vii

1 Darkest Wimbledon (London, England) 1

2 The Skeleton Coast (Namibia: Windhoek to Swakopmund) 11

3 Into the Desert (Namibia: Swakopmund to Arandis) 33

4 Where You Get Stuck (Namibia: Walvis Bay) 45

5 Devil Mule (Namibia: Walvis Bay to Usakos) 58

6 The Waterberg Plateau (Namibia: Usakos to Otjiwarongo) 79

7 Squashed Snakes and Cold Ditches (Namibia: Otjiwarongo to Rundu) 91

8 Lion Country (Namibia: Rundu to Kongola) 104

9 Tales from the Zambezi (Namibia: Kongola to Zambian Border) 119

10 Hunger March (Zambia: Namibian Border to Victoria Falls) 129

11 The Joys of Chibuku (Zambia: Livingstone to Lusaka) 146

12 Crossing the Luangwa (Zambia: Lusaka to Malawi Border) 155

13 The Lake of Stars (Malawi: Zambian Border to Nkhata Bay) 181

14 Kombwe Lagoon (Malawi: Nkhata Bay to Kombwe Lagoon) 210

15 To Go With Ghosts (Tanzania: Malawi Border to Mbuyuni) 219

16 The Boundless Ocean (Tanzania: Mbuyuni to Bagamoyo) 239

17 A Man Unfit for Society (Tanzania: Zanzibar) 256

Afterword: The Explorers 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274).

Maps on lining papers.

ISBN:

9780715637029

9781590200360

0715637029

1590200365

OCLC:

156891014