This travel book offers a description of a lone bicycle journey along the River Nile from the Mediterranean to the heartlands of Africa. Bettina Selby is a grandmother in her fifties who took up long-distance bicycling after her children had left home. Travelling alone on her "all-terrain bicycle", she met a wide variety of people, from Western aid officials and hospitable Arabs to warring Sudanese. She tells of the adventures which befall a solitary traveller in remote and war-torn countries. Her journey covers many ...
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This travel book offers a description of a lone bicycle journey along the River Nile from the Mediterranean to the heartlands of Africa. Bettina Selby is a grandmother in her fifties who took up long-distance bicycling after her children had left home. Travelling alone on her "all-terrain bicycle", she met a wide variety of people, from Western aid officials and hospitable Arabs to warring Sudanese. She tells of the adventures which befall a solitary traveller in remote and war-torn countries. Her journey covers many different sights, including the temples of Ancient Egypt, General Gordon's Khartoum, the Nubian desert, Lake Victoria and the eternal snows of the Mountains of the Moon.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. pp.240 color photos Traveling the length of the Nile Valley from the Mediterranean Sea to the Mountains of the Moon and the great lakes of central Africa on a bicycle. clean tight unread copy Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
