Name: Horizon Fever 1 - LARGE PRINT: Explorer A E Filby's own account of his extraordinary expedition through Africa, 1931-1935
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Author: Filby, Archibald Edmund ; Twead, Victoria ; Twead, Joe
ISBN: 9781922476289

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Horizon Fever 1 - LARGE PRINT: Explorer A E Filby's own account of his extraordinary expedition through Africa, 1931-1935

Type

Physical Book

Author

Archibald Edmund Filby

Preface by

Victoria Twead

Edited by

Joe Twead

Publisher

Ant Press Large Print

Language

English

Pages

318

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781922476289

Synopsis "Horizon Fever 1 - LARGE PRINT: Explorer A E Filby's own account of his extraordinary expedition through Africa, 1931-1935"

Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived. Proclaimed "the World's most travelled motorist", A E Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000 mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars.Horizon Fever is an honest, colourful, often shocking account; a snapshot of bygone days and attitudes. It tells of missionaries, pygmies, big-game hunting, gold-mining, crossing the Sahara and swimming in the Nile with crocodiles. One of Archie's companions was a monkey called Congo. Another was a dog that adopted him, until it was killed and dragged up a tree by a leopard. Archie himself comes across as a courageous, feisty, quick-tempered, bossy little man, but full of fun, generous and never one to bear a grudge.Thanks to Archie's records and photographs, we have a unique glimpse of an astonishing feat of endurance, more than 80 years after it was completed.

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