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Article: Traversa: A Solo Walk across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean
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Traversa A Solo Walk across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean by Fran Sandham Duckworth Overlook, 2007; $25.00
Following, if a bit shakily, in the footsteps of Livingstone and Stanley-the great ninteeth-century explorers-English travel writer Fran Sandham set out to walk across Africa at the end of the twentieth century. The trans-Africa trip of Victorian times, known as "the Traversa," was usually undertaken to fill in uncharted regions of the map, to advance the domain of the Crown, and to save the souls of "poor benighted heathens" (in Kipling's sardonic phrase). Sandham's path, in contrast, took him mostly along well-mapped tarmac, and, he admits, was undertaken as "an ...
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