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Title: One Dry Season
Subtitle: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley
Author: Caroline Alexander
Narrator: Lisette Lecat
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-12
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration
Publisher's Summary:
With richly evocative images and wonderfully entertaining anecdotes, Caroline Alexander transports you to the dense interior of equatorial Gabon. In One Dry Season, she chronicles her adventures as she makes her way alone through dangerously primitive territory.
When she first read of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsleys travels in the French colony of Gabon, Alexander knew she had to experience the present-day nation for herself. Soon she is retracing Kingsleys route - struggling through tangled vines in humid rain forests, chugging up the churning Ogooué River in a packed steamer, and fending off gigantic cockroaches. The country she discovers is a challenging mixture of Africas exotic past and its practical present.
A splendid storyteller, Caroline Alexander introduces you to the colorful new friends she made along the trail, including a shy mission nun, a half-mad French woman, and a village chief who treated her as an errant teenaged daughter. Lisette Lecats expert narration brings out all the excitement of todays Africa.
