On Foot Through Africa
Ffyona Campbell
In the typical style of British adventurers, Campbell starts her mammoth walk totally unprepared – unfit, slagging off the back-up team and under-sponsored. It’s amazing that she got through Africa, walking through the first fifteen countries with apparently no interest or reaction to the places she was walking through, “hermetically-sealed walking.” She seemed to be pretty immature (she was 24), for example complaining bitterly at being asked to do interviews in return for sponsorship. The impression is that she didn’t know why she was doing the walk, and was maybe mad.
Not particularly recommended.
Caroline 7/11/99
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