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11-01-2010, 01:12 AM | #1 |
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Free book (Kindle) - In Praise of Savagery [Travel Adventure, UK-only]
In Praise of Savagery, by Warwick Cairns, is a freebie for UK Kindlers, courtesy of publisher The Friday Project. This is subtitled A Journey to Africa, via Harlow, and is one of those modern-writer-retracing-the-route-of-famous-explorer-and-telling-us-what-he-thinks-of-it-all sorts of parallel travelogues.
Description One man’s journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure of it and do some of the journey on foot. When he himself was a young man, Thesiger led an expedition to explore the course of the Awash river in Ethiopia. Every westerner that had gone before him had been killed by local tribesmen. Needless to say, he survived. Alternating chapters chart Warwick’s journey with that of Thesiger creating a captivating dual narrative that is part travel book, part biography, part autobiography, part history with fair doses of philosophy and humour thrown in for good measure. In Praise of Savagery is a highly original book that defies classification but is always effortlessly readable. |
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