Walks on the Wild Side: Exploring an Unforgiving Land

Are you ready to take a walk on the seriously wild side?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.

Title - Walks on the Wild Side: Exploring an Unforgiving Land

Edition -

Author - John Pakenham

ISBN 13 - 9781785631948

Imprint - Eye Books

Publisher - Eye Books

Date Published - 28/04/2020

Prize -

No. of pages - 336

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x mm

Weight - g

Languages - English