The Woman Who Lived in a Tree & Other Perfect Strangers

by Pinnock, Don

• ISBN13: 9781770096929
• ISBN10: 1770096922
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-30
• Publisher: Jacana Media

Summary

Arguing that for many people, the easy predictibility of civilized life is unfulfilling, this chronicle presents the remarkable stories of Africans profiled by the author during more than a decade of adventuring. With a cast of characters that includes the eponymous tree-dwelling woman, the man who circled the globe in an ultralight plane powered by a lawn mower engine, and the person who decided to plant a million trees, this thrilling collection will inspire readers to launch their own adventures.

Author Biography

Don Pinnock is editor of Getaway magazine in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the founder of Usiko, rehabilitation organization for high-risk youths, and Umzi Wethu, a residential program for AIDS orphans.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Africans with a passion	p. xi
The woman who lived in a tree	p. 1
The elephant whisperer who plucks animals from the jaws of war	p. 9
Following the heart's path	p. 18
Cobb among the sharks	p. 25
Wild orchestras of the night	p. 31
Tea with a mapmaker and a fat dog	p. 38
In the forests of the night	p. 43
Africa's green heart	p. 50
Caves of antiquity	p. 56
Dying islands in the sun	p. 63
African travellers	p. 71
The curious life of a strangely compelling man and a family with a passion for adventure	p. 73
Adventuring on the edge	p. 83
Two microlights, a big planet and the year of living dangerously	p. 97
Into the heart of darkness	p. 106
Dream poling across the Delta	p. 119
Africans on ice	p. 131
The man from the Little Karoo who bagged the Pole	p. 133
Antarctica's other heroes	p. 140
The farmer's daughter who takes the world storm by storm	p. 146
Demon paddler	p. 154
Africans in the mountains	p. 163
The man and his mountain	p. 165
The glorious obsession of an ordinary man	p. 170
The rock, some rope and a man in the right place at the wrong time	p. 180
Braving Cameron's canyon	p. 188
Africans in history	p. 197
The trek to Nomansland	p. 199
On the trail of unhappy ghosts	p. 209
The trek to Copper Mountain	p. 219
Travelling the trails of !Xam	p. 225
Shaking up old bones	p. 236
Worker in a science yet unborn	p. 242
The madness of a collector	p. 250
St Barbe and the Incredible Journey	p. 258
Time traveller	p. 265
Just Africans	p. 269
The unofficial Sultan of Zanzibar	p. 271
A box of memories	p. 275
Magical moonwalkers	p. 279
Where the Kowie meets the sea	p. 281
Big dreams and a ballpoint pen	p. 286
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