Lay Down Your Heart
Retracing Stanley’s journey of 1871 in search of Dr Livingstone
Seiten
2025
Troubador Publishing (Verlag)
9781836282570 (ISBN)
Troubador Publishing (Verlag)
9781836282570 (ISBN)
A first-hand survival story of an unusually daring and ambitious expedition on foot through 1,200 miles of East Central Africa. It conveys the immediacy of the experience, from life-threatening encounters to moments of perfect peace.
This account of a journey for which few predicted a happy outcome before or after it began – with struggles through unforgiving terrain, close encounters with hostile animals, and a disastrous camp fire – has turned out to be not only a full-on survival story but also a rare time-capsule of life in Central Africa in the early era of independence. The author shares his enjoyment of a rich variety of people encountered, from astonished children first seeing white faces to great-grandparents with family memories of Victorian explorers.
A fed-up city-dweller’s idea of retracing on foot Stanley’s 1,200-mile expedition of 1871 originated in his boyhood reading of the American explorer’s classic account. Stanley’s team had been nearly 200 men; George Tardios’s for his equally historic expedition was himself, his wife and a young friend.
With eight pages of photographic illustrations, this diary-based account of a journey accomplished 40 years ago has had to await the author’s thorough physical and mental recovery from it, further years earning a living in Tanzania, and self-reinvention in a changed England.
This account of a journey for which few predicted a happy outcome before or after it began – with struggles through unforgiving terrain, close encounters with hostile animals, and a disastrous camp fire – has turned out to be not only a full-on survival story but also a rare time-capsule of life in Central Africa in the early era of independence. The author shares his enjoyment of a rich variety of people encountered, from astonished children first seeing white faces to great-grandparents with family memories of Victorian explorers.
A fed-up city-dweller’s idea of retracing on foot Stanley’s 1,200-mile expedition of 1871 originated in his boyhood reading of the American explorer’s classic account. Stanley’s team had been nearly 200 men; George Tardios’s for his equally historic expedition was himself, his wife and a young friend.
With eight pages of photographic illustrations, this diary-based account of a journey accomplished 40 years ago has had to await the author’s thorough physical and mental recovery from it, further years earning a living in Tanzania, and self-reinvention in a changed England.
George Tardios was born in London of Greek Cypriot parents. After working as a further education lecturer in English he became something of a rolling stone, with intermittent periods of working in night clubs, at the same time acquiring a number of practical skills, including horse-riding, kayaking, karate, fell-walking and rock-climbing. After his African expedition he continued to lead an adventurous life. Extensive travels included escape from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand; he trained as an actor and worked in films; he had two books of poems published. He died at his home in London in 2024 aged 79.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Market Harborough |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 585 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Bildbände |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781836282570 / 9781836282570 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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