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Article: THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION THE JOURNALS OR DAN ELDON.(Review)
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- African Business
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- July 1, 2001
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Kathy Eldon
[pound]25 Booth-Clibborn Editions ISBN 0-8118-1586-2
Dan Eldon was just 22 years old when he died, in 1983, at the hands of a Somali mob in Mogadishu reacting to the UN bombings of General Aideid's headquarters. This book is a collection of selected pages of some of the 17 journals he kept in a short but action-packed life.
Born in London to American and British parents, he moved to Nairobi when just 7years old, where he spent most of his childhood. At Nairobi's International School, he had a broad circle of friends of many expatriate nationalities, as well as close friends from within the Masaai community who lived close to his ...