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Stalking the Wild Dik-dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures Across Africa

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Stalking the Wild Dik-dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures Across Africa (Paperback)

by Marie Javins (Author)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Seal Press (11 Aug 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1580051642
ISBN-13: 978-1580051644
Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 14 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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"Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik" is a spirited African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes expected challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A thoroughly enjoyable journey into the labyrinth of people, animals and past that is Africa, 11 Sep 2006

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When writing about Africa - a travel genre of its own these days - some approaches seem to be more popular than others. There is the lone adventurer routine - preferably with the hero in a 4WD or on a motorcycle, as in "Running with the Moon" by Johnny Bealby - where the author invariably finds himself stranded in the heart of darkness and somehow lives to tell. And there's the high-brow, intellectual approach - perhaps most famously executed by Paul Theroux in "Dark Star Safari" - whose literary prowess is matched only by his equally limitless gift for misanthropy and self-pity.

And then there's Marie Javins - a bona fide globetrotter whose obsession with overland travel made her zigzag the African continent in 2001 as part of a world tour, and as if that wasn't enough, then came back for more last year. Author of several tent camping guides and thus no stranger to roughing it a bit, Ms Javins succeeds in straddling both approaches and with "Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik" comes out as something of a thinking man's - or should that be woman's - heroine. Much like Theroux did, the author wants to show us that there is more to Africa than war and misery, and contrary to him she actually succeeds in doing so. With the narrative set against an engaging and at times heartbreaking story of a more personal nature, the author takes the reader on a thoroughly enjoyable journey into the labyrinth of people, animals and past that is Africa.

Greatly appreciated and warmly recommended.

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