Sandham, Fran

Traversa : A Solo Walk Across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean

Documents the author's three-thousand-mile trek across Africa, a foot journey marked by such challenges as land mines, a syphilitic donkey, and giant cockroaches, in an account that also muses on the experiences of such explorers as David Livingstone, Sir H. M. Stanley, and Sir Francis Galton. 10,000 first printing.