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Walking the Nile

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Walking the Nile chronicles Levison Wood's epic 4,250-mile journey on foot along the entire length of the Nile River. Camping in the wild and foraging for food, he traverses diverse landscapes including rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert, and lush delta oasis, crossing seven distinct countries. This pioneering expedition reveals the history of the Nile and introduces readers to a modern Africa emerging from its past through encounters with the people who aid him. The journey tests his endurance against harsh terrain, climate, wildlife, and psychological challenges.
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This book will greatly appeal to readers interested in travel and adventure, exploration, African landscapes and cultures, and compelling real-life expedition stories. Fans of thoughtful and dramatic travel writing who enjoy personal challenges and historical context will find it engaging.

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A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller

His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers. He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis. He will cross seven, very different countries. No one has ever made this journey on foot.

In this detailed, thoughtful, inspiring and dramatic book, recounting Levison Wood's walk the length of the Nile, he will uncover the history of the Nile. Yet through the people he meets and who will help him with his journey, he will come face-to-face with the great story of a modern Africa emerging out of the past.

Exploration and Africa are two of his great passions. They motivate his inquisitiveness and resolution not to fail, yet the challenges of the terrain, the climate, the animals, the people and his own psychological resolution will throw at him are immense.

The dangers are very real, but so is the motivation for this ex-army officer. If he can overcome the mental and physical challenges, he will be walking into history...

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781471135651

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 July 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Illustration: 2 x 8pp Colour Plates

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Levison Wood is a writer and explorer. Having traveled in over 80 countries he documents the journeys of tribal peoples and minority groups around the world. He served as an officer in the British Army Parachute Regiment with operational experience in Afghanistan and training missions around the world. His expeditions have taken him from the deserts of North Africa, to the mountains of Central Asia and the jungles of South America. He is a Co-Founder of Secret Compass, has led pioneering treks across Madagascar and Iraq and is the first man to attempt to walk the length of the Nile in 2014. Levison is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and International Fellow of the Explorers Club. He was born in Staffordshire in 1982 and educated at the University of Nottingham and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

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