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Walks on the Wild Side

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By (author): John Pakenham

Are you ready to take a walk on the seriously wild side? In the early 1980s, John Pakenham walked a total of 1,500 miles, with a series of companions from the local Turkana and Samburu tribes and their long-suffering donkeys, around a lake in the Great Rift Valley of northern Kenya. Repeatedly beset by extreme thirst and dehydration, bitterly cold torrential rains, poisonous spiders, vindictive mosquitoes and the ever-present threat of bandits, not to mention a fatal fight between two of his companions, he was lucky to live to tell his tale. Pakenham''s account provides a rare glimpse of a tough terrain and its even tougher inhabitants, where every day was a battle for survival. This is extreme travel that, four decades on, still packs a powerful punch. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
  • Publisher: Eye Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781785631948

About John Pakenham

John Pakenham was born in Zanzibar where his father was a colonial officer. He was still a small child when his family returned to England. After schooling in Bath he studied theatre design and spent several years working in provincial and West End theatres. He then moved into the film industry as a special effects technician. He was one of the team responsible for the robot R2D2 in The Empire Strikes Back. Fascinated by the journeys of past adventurers he befriended the last of the old-school explorers Wilfred Thesiger who encouraged him between movies to travel without modern comforts using only map and compass donkeys and camels. That created the foundation for the treks described in Walks on the Wild Side. He believes passionately in the need to protect the planet and its wild creatures from the damage caused by humans.

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