Why Walk?
Ann Schlee, 16 February 1984
Eight Feet in the Andes
by Dervla Murphy.
Murray, 274 pp., £9.95, November 1983,0 7195 4083 6 Show More
by Dervla Murphy.
Murray, 274 pp., £9.95, November 1983,
West African Passage: A Journey through Nigeria, Chad and the Cameroons
by Margery Perham, edited by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene.
Peter Owen, 245 pp., £12, September 1983,0 7206 0609 8 Show More
by Margery Perham, edited by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene.
Peter Owen, 245 pp., £12, September 1983,
Castaway: A Story of Survival
by Lucy Irvine.
Gollancz, 287 pp., £8.95, October 1983,0 575 03340 1 Show More
by Lucy Irvine.
Gollancz, 287 pp., £8.95, October 1983,
In Search of the Sahara
by Quentin Crewe.
Joseph, 261 pp., £12.95, October 1983,0 7181 2348 4 Show More
by Quentin Crewe.
Joseph, 261 pp., £12.95, October 1983,
“... Why did you walk from Cajamara?’ Dervla Murphy is asked towards the end of Eight Feet in the Andes. ‘It is a long way and the roads are bad. It is possible to fly from Cajamara ... to Cuzco. It is not necessary to walk.’ The speaker has hit upon a truth about modern travellers. They are not tracing a route from the known to the unknown. Their motives for travelling are varied and often oblique ... ”
