On Foot Through Africa

by Ffyona Campbell

Book Overview

By far the hardest stage of Ffyona Campbell's world walk.It also tells how she found peace within herself & how each evening her campsite became a home when she fell in love with one of her drivers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857978137
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Orion
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 1.2" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

A unique book!

This book was filled with an energy which made it impossible to put down. This was not only about a walk but fills the reader with an understanding and appreciation for Africa and its people and an awareness of the harms done by the arrogance with which the West has imposed on African people. Obviously Ffyona is a person with tremendous fearlessness and determination and like everyone else on the planet, not without flaws. Whether she completed the walk or not, I do not really care - her insights, perspectives and experiences of Africa are enriching to the spirit and encourage a deeper understanding of this tremendous place!

nice book

i found it very beautiful. it was liked that she showed the things that go on around a walk as well, even tho a previous reviewer didn't. i thought her perceptions on africa were great. and her perceptions on how such things she acomplished and the life that went with it. it helped me fall even more deeply in love with africa and people and that unnamable peace that is so nice.i'd like to do something similar oneday and i don't think that she should feel bad about the missing miles, espescialy when she's gone back and put them in. i was very surprised to see what nasty things some press had written about her, but then those people are more mad because they're mad more than anything elese, and they often say nasty, stupid things. reading her book has made her something of a personal hero to me, and will go with my other imagended (not physically kickable) statues of people i honour and remember, which may sound sappy, but it's a pantheon, very big one, and i'm more than happy to have her in it ^_________^

a personal story of a good friend

I read this book not long after meeting Ffyona, and it helped me to see her as a person, with feelings and emotions, and not just as the outside shell we often judge people by. This is a book about a noble effort, and well worth reading...most of us will never get the experience any other way. I loved this book, and I am honored to call the author my friend.

On foot through Afrika

Ffyona has written the best book I have ever readed. It changed my life, realy! The impact that it has on your thinking about the world and your personal life is great. The manor of writing isn't very good but what's it about makes it all good. I want to read it again and again. Please Ffyona make more books!

Excellent travel book for women

I absolutely loved this book which provided an exceptional look at the challenges faced by a woman travelling across Africa. I felt like I could really relate to her and I really enjoyed seeing Africa through the eyes of a white young woman in a truly foreign land.