Award-winning writer Laura Resnick recounts her harrowing eight-month journey across the Dark Continent in wonderful style! She was attacked by bandits, arrested in two countries, played with wild gorillas, and went spear hunting with pygmies!
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A BLONDE IN AFRICA is quite an entertaining account. If you have any interest in the subject, I recommend it to your attention. -- Fosfax, June 1997.
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When award-winning writer Laura Resnick set out to cross Africa, she knew it would be exciting and she knew it would be exotic, but she didn't know that she'd... be forced to drive through a live minefield in the Sahara; be attacked by bandits in Tanzania; be arrested in Nigeria and the Central African Republic; watch a ceremony where men stab themselves in the belly with knives; stay in a campsite where lions like to rip open the tents; fall out of her boat while running the Zambezi rapids; play with wild gorillas in the mountains of Zaire; go on a spear-hunt with the pygmies of the Ituri Rain Forest. Here, with the same wonderful style that won her major awards in both the romance and the science fiction fields, Laura Resnick recounts her eight-month journey across the Dark Continent; and her remarkable return trip to a politically unstable South Africa.
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Laura Resnick is the author of the popular Esther Diamond series, whose releases include UNSYMPATHETIC MAGIC, DOPPELGANGSTER, DISAPPEARING NIGHTLY, and the upcoming VAMPARAZZI. She has also written traditional fantasy novels such as IN LEGEND BORN, THE DESTROYER GODDESS, and THE WHITE DRAGON, which made the "Year's Best" lists of Publishers Weekly and Voya. An opinion columnist, frequent public speaker, and the Campbell Award-winning author of many short stories, she is on the Web at www.LauraResnick.com.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An honest account of an overland adventure in Africa,
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This review is from: Blonde in Africa (Resnick's Library of African Adventure) (Paperback)
What a worthwhile book! Laura Resnick shares her adventures on an overland adventure in Africa. What is great about this book is that it is refreshingly honest. Laura is very upfront about everything. She tells it like it is from how and where to the bathroom to what she realy thinks about hiking. If you like reading travel journals you're going to like this book!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Perfect,
By Kathy Pearson (Wichita, KS USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Blonde in Africa (Resnick Library of African Adventure) (Hardcover)
Having just returned from Africa, I have to thank Laura Resnick for taking me back there again. Her book paints a perfect picture of an American's experiences in a country that couldn't be more different from ours. From albinos, bugs, strange illnesses, whizzing downhill, the joys of Listerine, showering in the rain, dehydration, communication challenges, etc. Laura shares her trip with us in a heartfelt, often hilarious novel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is intense,
This review is from: Blonde in Africa (Resnick's Library of African Adventure) (Paperback)
This books is very intense and up front. I spent a couple of months living in a travel trailer in the US and I thought that was quite a difficult adventure, until I read this book.
There's a good interview at www.firstvoicebooks.com/blonde.html with the author. Ants, roads, shopping for meat, charming festivals, leg sores, it's one heck of an adventure. Thank goodness I can stay home and just read about it.
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