A hat, a kayak & dreams of Dar / Terry Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Terry, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bell, Terry, 1942---Travel--Europe, Western.

Bell, Terry.

Bell, Barbara (Teacher)--Travel--Europe, Western.

Bell, Barbara.

Kayaking--Europe, Western.

Kayaking.

Kayaking--Africa.

Europe, Western--Description and travel.

Europe, Western.

Africa--Description and travel.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : Face2Face, An imprint of Cover2Cover Books, 2017.

Summary:

In December 1965, in a smoke-filled hotel room in Morocco, South African journalist Terry Bell accepted a challenge: to paddle a kayak from London to Tangier. At the time, Terry and his wife Barbara were living as political exiles in London. By August 1967, they agreed it was time to get back to Africa. But they decided to up the ante. Their plan: paddle 11 000 kilometres from England to Dar es Salaam in a 5-metre glass fibre kayak.

Contents:

A hat on the hippie trail

How to escape without a passport

A kayak called Amandla

A shambolic departure from Chiswick

Sand, mud & the Thames estuarty

Fog, a tidal surge & a nudist colony

Incongnito into the French canal system

In the wake of Robert Louis Stevenson

An anniversary dinner to remember

Acqueducts & terror on the Rhone

Avignon, a water rat & rosé

Aigues-Mortes & a Vietnam lesson

Being blasted by the Mistral

Caribbean hopes & a hut off the Aigues-Mortes

Jock of Gibraltor & the horror of Monte Cassino

Important lessons in Morrocco

Braving the seas and bells in the buff

The magnificent Costa Brava & early warnings

In fog without a compass

Rough water & mutiny

Farewell to Amandla, welcome to 3rd class rail

No man is an island

Heading south in a converted British Post Office van

A car called HOPPERLI & the fate of the hat.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-928346-65-0