Esprit de Battuta
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- ISBN 9781743795736
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2020
- Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Esprit de Battuta: Alone Across Africa on a Bicycle is the story of one woman’s exciting travel adventure through Africa – before mobile phones and before easy Internet access – alone and on a bicycle.
Australian-born and London-based Pamela Watson had a comfortable, if overworked existence, as a management consultant but yearned for freedom and the adventure. “That’s it!” she thought. “I’ll cycle across Africa!”Join her on this intoxicating journey that began as a search for adventure and turned into a journey of self-discovery. Along the way she discovers companionship and compassion, and injustices that burn through the page. Cycling for a year and a half, covering nearly 15,000 kilometres and crossing seventeen countries, she encountered an Africa rarely reported in the media and experienced first-hand the violent tinderbox of local politics. She discovers women are the backbone of rural Africa and is shocked to learn their responsibilities are not matched by their access to basic human rights.
Now in its third edition, Esprit de Battuta is a must-read for all armchair adventurers, those who are curious about the everyday lives of the people of the rural villages of Africa and those who dare to challenge the status quo.
Pamela Watson is an intrepid adventurer and businesswoman. Born in Perth, Western Australia she grew up watching the sun setting in the west and as an adult followed its pathway to Africa. From her intoxicating solo cycling journey in the ‘90s, travels to 32 countries in Africa, her thrilling entrepreneurial and diplomatic adventures in Nigeria in the 2000s and her ongoing work in Africa, she has a rare insight into Africa’s complex and challenging past and present, and offers a frank appraisal of how its future might unfold. Pamela is passionate about doing business to her own beat and championing Lagos and the unleashed potential of Africa’s female entrepreneurs. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and lives in London.
