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I am the most sedentary, stay at home Americano you would ever want to meet. I go out reluctantly and come home fast. But only on my few reporting treks to Africa have I heard the siren call of adventure. Only there - but every single time there. From Tunis to Cape Town. What is it about Africa? What is this soft whisper to go forth and experience this kaleidoscope of desert, swamp, jungle, mountains, rivers and people that enchants Westerners even as it brings so many to ruin?
My guess is that it is the sheer unknowability that has drawn explorers and exploiters to row its rivers till their backs break, trek its mountains and deserts until they drop, and slog its swamps and jungles until something eats them. Other lands have features that fascinate, exhilarate, or frustrate but only Africa has it all. One can only visit it, not even its indigenous people can conquer it.See the full content of this document
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The Daring Men Who Heard Africa's Siren Call
So if you share the same itch I do, let me recommend these two ripping yarns about folk just like us who for the lust of knowing have undergone unspeakable adventures and hardships to discover wonders that still mystify us today. Together these books are an African timeline that begins with the earliest organized efforts by British cartographers to fill in ...
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