Africa – In the Footsteps of the Great Explorers

Adventurous Kingsley Holgate follows the footsteps of the great explorers through Africa and tackles journeys along the Nile, Congo, Rovuma and Rufiji and on the lakes Niassa, Victoria and Tanganyika.
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Title: Africa – In the Footsteps of the Great Explorers
Author: Kingsley Holgate
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Travel and Heritage
Cape Town, South Africa 2006
ISBN 9781770071476 / ISBN 978-1-77007-147-6
Softcover, 18x25 cm, 304 pages, throughout photos and sketches


Description:

Fans of Kingsley Holgate and his wild adventures, tackled fearlessly with his wife Gill and son Ross and a varying band of expedition members, will relish this new series of epic exploits. Always game to venture where many before him have feared to tread, Kingsley and his entourage have set out to honour those tough, courageous early explorers of the African continent.

David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, Frederick Courtney Selous, John Hanning Speke and others all faced starvation, fever and often death to open up Africa to the Western world. Like these brave and tenacious individuals, the Holgate party tackle mighty rivers such as the Nile, Congo, Rovuma and Rufiji, negotiating angry rapids, thrashing with crocodiles and startling territorial hippos.

Circumnavigating Africa's greatest lakes – Niassa, Victoria and Tanganyika – they battle demonic high winds and water, and endure the blistering furnace of the desolate lava-bouldered Jade Sea's shores. These are tales of such daring, courage and endurance that it's impossible for readers to tire of the Kingsley family's high adventures.


Content:

Africa's True Heroes - A Dedication
Africa - In the footsteps of the Great Explorers
Makgadikgadi - Where the Wind Speaks
From Mouth to Source - Zambezi, River of God
A Journey down the Congo - Into the Heart of Darkness
Rio Rovuma - to the Lake of Stars
Chuma & Susi - Two Unsung Heroes of African Exploration
Zanzibar to Victoria-Nyanza - A Journey
Victoria-Nyanza - A Circumnavigation of Africa's Largest Lake
Lake Turkana - A Journey to the Jade Sea
The Rufiji - Conquering the River from Source to Mouth
Our Fight Against Malaria
Bibliography
Picture Credits

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