Safari na Paka: Memoirs of a Solo Traveller

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Just under 40 years of independent adventure travel provides the material for a collection of personal vignettes staged in far flung exotic destinations. Take a peak into an eclectic selection of countries with an addicted globetrotter. Through a series of essays focusing on aspects of travel as a way of organizing a lifetime of on-the-road experiences, Safari na Paka is an attempt to convey the infectious joy to be found in travel. As a perpetual and personal rite of passage, it is a celebration of travel, of itchy feet and a quest to learn and understand what this grand old world is all about. Paka takes you on unique transport to places traditional modes often do not go. Safari sana, Safari njema, Safari na Paka!

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Traveling adventure - JMB aka Hymie - California, USA
I have read Cat's book many times and always find a new treasure....a new thought..in this book she has describe a time when travel was less structured, and the beaten path was not readily available. For those of you who want to feel those days this book is a must read. From a young girl on to her life's adventure which she is still living...the true meaning of an ex-pat....and she has a new book coming out which I am looking forward to reading..the adventure is always ongoing

An Aran Keening

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"An Aran Keening stands as a celebration of pungent wildness."—Patricia Craig, London Times Literary Supplement

In November 1968, at the age of twenty-two, Andrew McNeillie left his job and his girlfriend in Wales and traveled to Inishmore, one of the isolated Aran Islands off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. He was not a tourist; he stayed eleven months on Inishmore, living alone in a tiny house. An Aran Keening is a limpidly written memoir of that time, a celebration of the island and its people, a lament for a way of life that was infused with a deep sadness then and has vanished altogether now.

An Aran Keening tells of a time before electricity and landing strips, a time of real poverty for many. Island life was, in both mind and body, more stark and more dramatic then; it stood much closer to the candle- and horse-powered nineteenth century than to the digital twenty-first. McNeillie fished and trapped for his food—his accounts of his methods are among the most dazzling passages in the book—and writes with great love, but without a trace of romanticism, about the natural world of Aran. With extraordinary sensitivity and subtlety, this gifted writer recounts the awkward but ultimately enriching interactions between his youthful self and the people of Inishmore. An Aran Keening commemorates both the immortality of youth, in all its courage, folly, and quick tenderness of heart, and the passing of a world.

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