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Her Safari traces a dangerous journey by four young people through Africa in the optimistic but violent days of uhuru in the late 1960s. This classic travel story, based substantially on real experiences, includes a life-threatening fuel crisis in the Sahara, arrest in Nigeria, a confrontation with armed and unruly soldiers in the Congo, an attack by a delinquent elephant and thrilling encounters with mountain gorillas and migrating wildebeest. It sheds new light on the post-colonial history of the Sudan.

As the London-to-Cape town odyssey unfolds the well-educated but youthfully naive travellers become fatally entangled in post-colonial Africa’s murderous politics.

If you are interested in travel writing and Africa, this is for you.