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Africa
  • Language: en

Africa

Meet Kingsley Holgate with his wild adventures, tackled fearlessly with his petite wife Gill and son Ross and a varying band of expedition members as he takes on epic exploits.

Afrika
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Afrika

Driven by his passion for exploration and a deep love of Africa, intrepid adventurer Kingsley Holgate sets off yet again with his loyal team on a quest to circumnavigate the outside edge of Africa. This title lets you share this journey with Kingsley and his team.

Africa in the Footsteps of the Great Explorers
  • Language: en

Africa in the Footsteps of the Great Explorers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Jam-packed with hair-raising, true-life exploits: Kingsley Holgate truly earns his title of modern-day adventurer as he embarks on his fascinating - but nevertheless extremely dangerous - expeditionary travels.

Capricorn: Following the Invisible Line
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Capricorn: Following the Invisible Line

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Cape to Cairo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Cape to Cairo

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Along with his family, famed adventurer Kingsley Holgate dares to attempt to cross the length of the African continent along its watery veins, from Cape Town in the south to Cairo in the north.

Following the Invisible Line Capricorn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Following the Invisible Line Capricorn

The journal of adventurer Kingsley Holgate, who, with his wife Gill, their son Ross and a variety of different expedition members, journeyed around the world along the Tropic of Capricorn. Heading forever west the team braved unexploded landmines, man-eating lions and the great Namib desert.

Cape to Cairo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Cape to Cairo

"Charting the journey of Kingsley Holgate across Africa as he ventures along the length of the continents's waterways, this journal is a rich weave of daily challenges, historical tidbits and a record of the diverse cultures and natural wonders that this intrepid traveller encounters"--Publisher's description.

Saving the Last Rhinos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Saving the Last Rhinos

The remarkable story of Grant Fowlds, who has dedicated his life to saving the imperiled rhinos, vividly told with Graham Spence, co-author of the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer. What would drive a man to ‘smuggle’ rhino horn back into Africa at great risk to himself? This is just one of the situations Fowlds has put himself in as part of his ongoing fight against poaching, in order to prove a link between southern Africa and the illicit, lucrative trade in rhino horn in Vietnam. Shavings of rhino horn are sold as a snake-oil “cures,” but a rhino’s horn has no magical, medicinal properties whatsoever. Yet it is for this that rhinoceroses are being killed at an escalating rate t...

First Overland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

First Overland

Why Not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys – half way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the desrts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were ‘just too many rivers and too few roads'. But no-one really knew … In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had no money, no cars, nothing. But with a...

Cultural Tourism and Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Cultural Tourism and Identity

Studies of cultural tourism and indigenous identity are fraught with questions concerning exploitation, entitlement, ownership and authenticity. Unease with the idea of leveraging a group identity for commercial gain is ever-present. This anthology articulates some of these debates from a multitude of standpoints. It assimilates the perspectives of members of indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, tourism practitioners and academic researchers who participated in an action research project that aims to link research to development outcomes.