To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa-Fast Shipping

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Title: To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa

Author: Nina Sovich

ISBN: 9780544025950

Publisher: New Harvest

Published: 2013

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 1

Number of Volumes: 2

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window spotted with Paris rain, she no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth travelling in Cairo, Lahore, and the West Bank staring back at her. Unwittingly, she had followed life s script, and now she needed to cast it by female explorers like Mary Kingsley, who explored Gabon s jungle in the 1890s, and Karen Blixen, who ran a farm in Kenya during World War I, Sovich packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure. “To the Moon and Timbuktu” takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. On Sovich s travels, she encounters rough-and-tumble Chinese sailors, a Venezuelan doctor working himself to death in Chinguetti, indifferent French pensioners RVing along the coast, and a close-knit circle of Nigerien women who adopt her into their fold, showing her the promise of Africa s lyrical memoir will transport you to the breathtaking landscapes of West Africa, whose stark beauties will instill wonder in even the most experienced traveler. Sovich s journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.”