Horizon Fever 1 - LARGE PRINT: Explorer A E Filby's own account of his extraordinary expedition through Africa, 1931-1935

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Motor cars: general interest

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Ant press large print

Horizon Fever 1 - LARGE PRINT: Explorer A E Filby's own account of his extraordinary expedition through Africa, 1931-1935 : Ant Press Large Print : 9781922476289 : 1922476285 : 09 Sep 2020 : Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived. Proclaimed "the World's most travelled motorist", A E Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000 mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars. Horizon Fever is an honest, colourful, often shocking account; a snapshot of bygone days and attitudes. It tells of missionaries, pygmies, big-game hunting, gold-mining, crossing the Sahara and swimming in the Nile with crocodiles. One of Archie's companions was a monkey called Congo. Another was a dog that adopted him, until it was killed and dragged up a tree by a leopard. Archie himself comes across as

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