Travels with fortune: An African adventure - Hardcover
This is the amazing tale of Christina Dodwell's first adventure: a three-year journey through Africa. Recounted with modesty and good humour, it is a story of great tenacity and incredible courage. Christina travelled by horse, camel, on foot, hitching lifts from time to time-even hailing passing airplanes out of the sky! The author shared meals with cannibals, was treated by witch-doctors and learned to pan gold. She and her friend journeyed almost a thousand miles down the Congo River in a dugout canoe: the first women in the world to accomplish such a hazardous journey. This is a truly extraordinary travel book. It is a brilliant account of Africa, its sights and smells, its many races, seen through the eyes of an English girl.
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- PublisherW. H. Allen
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 049102407X
- ISBN 13 9780491024075
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages316
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 316 pp.Monochrome photograph pls. Black boards with title, author and publisher in gilt on the spine. A previous owner's name has been tipexed over on the front fep. The dust wrapper is not price clipped, it has a small chip to the corner on the head of the upper cover. The tail of the lower hinge has a very small red ink mark. A very good tight, clean copy. 510 gms + packaging. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # TRAV2004
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£5.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 316pp, illustrated. Intrepid traveller Christina Dodwell FRGS (b.1951), is a British explorer, travel writer, and lecturer. She is Chairman of the Dodwell Trust and was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 1989. This is an account of her three year journey through Africa on horseback, camel, zebroid (half zebra half donkey), buses and dugout canoe. Quite mad!. Seller Inventory # 007698
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Author's first book. Dark boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Binding is tidy and strong. Pages are a little discoloured, with the odd light mark at the edges. Page edges are foxed, so too free endpapers, otherwise this book is in good condition. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed at the edges and a little discoloured, else in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound. Seller Inventory # TRA556
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