The zest for travel and adventure runs true in our family. Whether it was bringing in powder to the battery from a wagon under heavy fire during the Crimean War, dodging assegais in the Matabele War in Rhodesia, escaping from the Japanese when they invaded China in 1937, or facing off a charging lion in the North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, taking risks is what this book is all about. The first part is autobiographical, which...