FOOTING WITH SIR RICHARD`S GHOST by Patricia Glyn (Signed copy)

In 1863, English gentleman Sir Richard Glyn and his brother Robert came to Africa, lured to the continent by its big game and the astonishing cascade that David Livingstone had recently 'discovered' and named the Victoria Falls. The brothers set off from Durban and, despite terrible trials, reached the falls four and a half months later, becoming the fourth foreign party to do so. The men nearly died of thirst, they got lost in the cruel Kalahari, they faced mutiny and abandonment by their staff,. and they had close encounters with some of Africa's most dangerous animals.

Richard kept a diary of their extraordinary odyssey, a journal that inspired his and Robert's great-great-grand niece, Patricia Glyn, to shadow their expedition in 2005. But unlike her ancestors, Patricia did the journey entirely on foot. Accompanied by her little African dog, Tapiwa, this remarkable woman walked nearly 2200 kilometres, following her forebears' route along the 19th century wagon trails that once snaked along the great rivers of the subcontinent. Trudging through deep desert sand, battling through thick thorn veld and walking unarmed in Big Five territory, she met Africa's gracious rural people, consorted with Zimbabwe's notorious 'war veterans' and sought out the descendants of the people who had helped Richard and Robert through their most trying times.

Soft cover, good condition.