Walks on the Wild Side: Exploring an Unforgiving Land
- ISBN-10
- 1785631950
- ISBN-13
- 9781785631955
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-01
- Publisher
- Eye Books (US&CA)
- Author
- John Pakenham
Description
In the early 1980s, John Pakenham walked a total of 1,500 miles, with a series of companions from the local Turkana and Samburu tribes and their long-suffering donkeys, around a lake in the Great Rift Valley of northern Kenya. Repeatedly beset by extreme thirst and dehydration, bitterly cold torrential rains, poisonous spiders, vindictive mosquitoes and the ever-present threat of bandits, not to mention a fatal fight between two of his companions, he was lucky to live to tell his tale. Pakenham's account provides a rare glimpse of a tough terrain and its even tougher inhabitants, where every day was a battle for survival. This is extreme travel that, four decades on, still packs a powerful punch.
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