Travels with fortune: An African adventure

This is the amazing tale of Christina Dodwell's first adventure: a three-year journey through Africa. Recounted with modesty and good humour, it is a story of great tenacity and incredible courage. Christina travelled by horse, camel, on foot, hitching lifts from time to time-even hailing passing airplanes out of the sky! The author shared meals with cannibals, was treated by witch-doctors and learned to pan gold. She and her friend journeyed almost a thousand miles down the Congo River in a dugout canoe: the first women in the world to accomplish such a hazardous journey. This is a truly extraordinary travel book. It is a brilliant account of Africa, its sights and smells, its many races, seen through the eyes of an English girl.