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,
“... G’s opinions. His vocabulary appears more limited than Man Friday’s and far less edifying. Ms Irvine, however, tells her tale unflinchingly. Her attitudes are strictly for the Eighties. On arrival they fling off their clothes and experience the ‘sudden shock of freedom ... anything could happen.’ Little does. There is a threat of crocodiles in the ... ”
