Riding the Desert Trail: By bicycle to the source of the Nile

by Bettina Selby (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $9.80

  This travel book offers a description of a lone bicycle journey along the River Nile from the Mediterranean to the heartlands of Africa. Bettina Selby is a grandmother in her fifties who took up long-distance bicycling after her children had left home. Travelling alone on her all-terrain bicycle , she met a wide variety of people, from Western aid officials and hospitable Arabs to warring Sudanese. She tells of the adventures which befall a solitary traveller in remote and war-torn countries. Her journey covers many different sights, including the temples of Ancient Egypt, General Gordon's Khartoum, the Nubian desert, Lake Victoria and the eternal snows of the Mountains of the Moon.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.19

  Bettina Selby decided to travel the 4500 mile length of the Nile valley by herself, from the Mediterranean Sea to the great lakes of Central Africa. She designed a special, bright-red all terrain bicycle, which took her from the pyramids, the great temples of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings to the Nubian Desert, from Cairo and the hospitality of remote Nile-side villages, to the starving refugee camps of Southern Sudan and from the world of international aid to the terrifying child-soldiers of Uganda. This book describes her impressions of Egypt and her experiences of travelling alone.