This is the amazing tale of Christina Dodwell's first adventure: a three-year journey through Africa. She was twenty-four when she and three companions crossed the Sahara by Landrover. But the two men of the party took the car and left her and her friend Lesley stranded in the middle of Nigeria. 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, learned...