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A Blonde in Africa (Resnick Library of African Adventure)

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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!

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.

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.

Africa is one of the places I've always wanted to go. Resnick, who has gone, shares with the reader an eye-opening look at her experiences over eight months of overland trekking across the African continent. She pulls no punches with regard to her own reactions to the lands, the leaders, her fellow overlanders--and thus gives a brutally honest look at what rustic and challenging overlanding is all about. Wonderfully insightful comments on cultural expectations, and should be required reading for anyone contemplating an African journey. You won't think the same about yourself or Africa once you've finished this book.

If you've ever wanted to camp your way across Africa from north to south--or even if your adventuring is strictly of the armchair variety--you'll love this account by a 30 year old romance/science fiction author of her half a year spent traveling by camper/bus across Africa. Funny, thoughtful, and honest, I found it compelling (the night I started it I was exhausted, and couldn't put it down until Chapter 10, and only because I was about to keel over!) and thought-provoking.I recommend it highly