Trans Africa '62 eBook Neville Williams
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Cairo to Cape Town by Motorcycle
This is a vintage travel adventure that took place in 1962 as two 19-year-old neighbors and high school classmates from Ohio embarked on a journey of a lifetime a motorcycle journey from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa.
The pair visited most of the ancient ruins of the Nile Valley, slept atop the Great Pyramid, traversed the wild Sudan, climbed the Mountain of the Moon, encountered wild and remote tribes, rode among the animals in the Serengeti during the great migrations, and witnessed colonial Africa prior to the enormous changes that were to come.
This is a memoir of a vanished Africa, as well as an illuminating story of Africa today, based on the author's ongoing visits in later years. The personal narrative covers politics, history, and the wonder of experiencing this vast continent on two wheels for 15,000 miles over African roads.
Trans Africa '62 eBook Neville Williams
I really enjoyed this book. The reading was fast and fun. As I turned each page I was looking forward to the next adventure. Even in '62 an adventurer could get in trouble in dark Africa, but Neville Williams and Rich Lytle seem either innocent or fearless. When Neville and Rich parted ways, Neville went on alone. Scary, but I am sure he is now glad he continued the trip. I learned a lot about the geography of Africa as I followed them from Cairo to Cape Town. I especially appreciated the acceptance of the locals when they asked to camp here there and everywhere. They were smart to camp at police headquarters when possible. Every step of the way I wondered how it would be to travel this same route today. I don't think it would be a good idea. Sadly the world has changed in much of Africa. I found myself wishing I had done something so adventurous when I was young and able.Product details
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Trans Africa '62 eBook Neville Williams Reviews
"Trans Africa '62" is one of the most enjoyable and page turning memoirs I've read in many years.
A remarkable adventure superbly written and full of surprises.
I could not recommend it more highly.
~ Jed Feuer
If you are an experienced traveler or someone who likes to read about others’ adventures in travel, I have a book to recommend to you. Neville William’s book, TransAfrica62 is his story of the trip he and a friend took when they traveled by motorcycle from Egypt to Capetown, South Africa in 1962. Neville, a long time friend, is a talented writer who makes the pages of the book come alive through his gift of narrative. It is an adventure story, but it is also a coming of age story because of how the people he met and the places he saw changed him.
Neville has the knowledge to reach back into history to provide insights into the people and culture he was visiting and then updates the narrative with today’s reality. I learned so much about the people and places he visited through his engaging storytelling. Each chapter has a jewel, an insight, a bit of fascinating trivia or some fact relevant to understanding Africa today.
Neville follows the path of the famous adventurer, Sir Richard Halliburton and like Halliburton, spent a night sleeping on top of the great Pyramid in Egypt. In vivid detail he recounts the perils of his climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Mountains of the Moon in East Africa. He faced the challenge of navigating Africa’s roads on a motorcycle in 1962, and whether it was luck or skill he had only one accident!
Neville’s adventures as a young man are retold now with descriptions of the relationships he developed (and romanticized) with the captivating young women he met along the way. These vignettes bring a very human aspect to the adventure story. It was fun to remember the 1960s through his eyes.
I was one of the people who gave Neville travel advice from my experience hitchhiking from Alexandria, Egypt to Mombasa in 1961. Our adventures had many similarities and we both wonder today how we did it, but we don’t question why we did it.
Read it; he tells a fascinating story about the adventure that changed his life.
Well written and exciting story of a motorbike trek through Africa in the 1960s by a young man who went on to become a solar pioneer and entrepreneur. Well worth reading.
Neville is my cousin so I know the African trip very well. But the book includes many stories that he had not repeated to the family previously. I am glad to see that he has documented the trip for the public to read. Well written and entertaining story for all armchair adventurers to explore the Africa of times long past. It helped me a lot to have a map of Africa handy to plot Neville's journey as I read.
I really enjoyed this book. The reading was fast and fun. As I turned each page I was looking forward to the next adventure. Even in '62 an adventurer could get in trouble in dark Africa, but Neville Williams and Rich Lytle seem either innocent or fearless. When Neville and Rich parted ways, Neville went on alone. Scary, but I am sure he is now glad he continued the trip. I learned a lot about the geography of Africa as I followed them from Cairo to Cape Town. I especially appreciated the acceptance of the locals when they asked to camp here there and everywhere. They were smart to camp at police headquarters when possible. Every step of the way I wondered how it would be to travel this same route today. I don't think it would be a good idea. Sadly the world has changed in much of Africa. I found myself wishing I had done something so adventurous when I was young and able.
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