Trek
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1991
Jonathan Cape Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-224-02775-5 (ISBN)
Jonathan Cape Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-224-02775-5 (ISBN)
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Alan Cooper took his 1932 Morris Minor across the Sahara. The Mau Mau uprising was at its height when he assembled his paying passengers. The sequence of coincidences which led the author to uncover what took place is related in this story of how these four responded to each other and their ordeal.
Alan Cooper took his 1932 Morris Minor across the Sahara. The Mau Mau uprising was at its height when Cooper assembled his paying passengers at his farm outside Nairobi. The motely crew were unacquainted - a worldly field biologist of 40 who recorded the whole trip with her 8mm movie camera, a genteel schoolmistress of uncertain age in search of romance, and a 17-year-old boy whose mother had insisted the treck would make a man of him. While the strange quartet sped through equatorial Africa each sought to ignore other more sinister omens. But finally it was the desert that turned adventure into nightmare and brought British and French governments into conflict over the circumstances of rescue by the French Foreign Legion. The sequence of coincidences which led the author to uncover what actually took place is related in this story of how these four responded to each other and the appalling ordeal.
Alan Cooper took his 1932 Morris Minor across the Sahara. The Mau Mau uprising was at its height when Cooper assembled his paying passengers at his farm outside Nairobi. The motely crew were unacquainted - a worldly field biologist of 40 who recorded the whole trip with her 8mm movie camera, a genteel schoolmistress of uncertain age in search of romance, and a 17-year-old boy whose mother had insisted the treck would make a man of him. While the strange quartet sped through equatorial Africa each sought to ignore other more sinister omens. But finally it was the desert that turned adventure into nightmare and brought British and French governments into conflict over the circumstances of rescue by the French Foreign Legion. The sequence of coincidences which led the author to uncover what actually took place is related in this story of how these four responded to each other and the appalling ordeal.
Paul Stewart was born in England in 1955. He studied English at Lancaster Univesity and went on to take a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia with Malcolm Bradbury. He is the author of three novels for older children - The Thought Domain, The Weather Witch and Adam's Ark. He has travelled extensively in Western Europe, India, Sri lanka, Australia, the United States and East Africa where he first came across the true story that is told in Trek.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.6.1991 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8pp of b&w photographs |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 516 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika |
| ISBN-10 | 0-224-02775-1 / 0224027751 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-224-02775-5 / 9780224027755 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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