Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

by Peter Moore | Travel |
ISBN: 0553814524 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Soongsis2 on 4/24/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by Soongsis2 on Sunday, April 24, 2005
This is one of the more interesting and humourous travel lit that I've read in a while. Also, it's also the first travel lit that I've read that is 100% devoted to Africa, plus the first book I've read written by Peter Moore. All in all, highly recommended, and Peter Moore is a pretty good writer, with an engaging and easy-going style of writing.

Synopsis from book:
In the grand tradition of 19th-century scoundrels and romantics, Africa struck Peter Moore as the ideal place to find solitude and anonymity in the face of personal crisis. So, a week after breaking up with the GND - his travelling companion through Central American - our intrepid explorer set off to the Dark Continent to lose himself for a while.

Following the fabled Cape Town to Cairo route by any means possible, Peter's journey took him from the southernmost city in Africa to the pyramids of Egypt, across vast game parks, past thundering waterfalls, through cosmopolitan cities and tiny villages - through the heart of this remarkable continent. With alsmost every country along the way in a state of political turmoil, he not only had to grapple with wild animals and natural disasters, but also civil wars and corrupt governments; just the sort of heady cocktail he thrives on.

And being on his own, it was inevitable that Peter would fall in with the usual motley crew of locals and fellow travellers who managed to show him how, in the face of greater adversity than a broken heart, life should really be lived.

The result is an epic, hilarious, gut-wrenching (and occasionally bottom-clenching) true story of derring-do and derring-probably-shouldn't-have.

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