One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley Audiobook (Free)

With richly evocative images and wonderfully entertaining anecdotes, Caroline Alexander transports you to the dense interior of equatorial Gabon. In One Dry Season, she chronicles her travels as she makes her way alone through dangerously primitive territory. When she first read of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley’s travels in the French colony of Gabon, Alexander knew she had to see the present-day country for herself. Quickly she actually is retracing Kingsley’s route-struggling through tangled vines in humid rainfall forests, chugging in the churning OgoouE River in a loaded steamer, and fending off gigantic cockroaches. The united states she discovers is normally a challenging mixture of Africa’s exotic past and its own practical present. An outstanding storyteller, Caroline Alexander introduces you to the colourful new close friends she produced along the trail including a shy objective nun, a half-mad French girl, and a town chief who treated her as an errant teenaged daughter. Lisette Lecat’s expert narration brings about all the enjoyment of today’s Africa.