A Long Way From Sunday: Memoir of an African Adventure

"You'd better run-they're going to kill you!"'I seemed to spend a lot of my time in Africa running from things. Not only thieves, mobs, wild elephants, and crazy truck drivers-but myself.' RR1994. Unnerved by the realisation she was being sucked into a life of Sunday afternoons mowing the lawn, 25 year old Australian Rosalind Redshaw set off for Africa with her boyfriend, a backpack and a foolproof plan: start in Cairo, get to the other end of the continent, any way possible. So began an extraordinary 13-month adventure beyond anything she could have imagined-one that would test her character, her relationship, her sanity.This is the true story of an old-style journey in a time before mobile phones and the internet; a story about wild animals, witchdoctors, bicycles, and love...and the lengths a person will go to for the sake of an idea...