Lay Down Your Heart (eBook)

Retracing Stanley's Journey of 1871 in search of Dr Livingstone

George Tardios (Autor)

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2025
456 Seiten
Troubador Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83628-992-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• ISBN-10: 1-83628-992-8 / 1836289928
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83628-992-0 / 9781836289920