Footsteps of Explorers听 Sandi talks to three explorers about walking in the footsteps of the heroic explorers from the age of adventure.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
This week's guests
Tom has had a restless career.听 He's been a teacher, journalist, dustman, bartender in a Hong Kong nightclub and a jackaroo on an Australian sheep station.
His new book is called Down the Niger on the Trail of听 Mungo Park. It is his journey into the interior of Africa, a travel commentary interspersed with description of 's journey over the same terrain in 1795.
REBECCA HARRIS
Rebecca used to work for the 大象传媒 Natural History Unit.听 After she left the 大象传媒 she became involved with the Shackleton Memorial Expedition to Antarctica in 2001.
In her own Franklin Memorial expedition to the Arctic in April 2003, Rebecca and her team retraced the steps of John Franklin and his crew who were lost in 1845 whist trying to find the North West Passage.听
Benedict believes that being an explorer today is not so much about the heroic adventurer conquering the wilderness, but learning about the wilderness and conquering ourselves.
On his trek along the Namib desert/Skeleton Coast of South West Africa he travelled with three camels for 1,000 miles.听 He was always looking forward to the end of the journey, but says that when it was reached he could not wait to get out to the desert again.
Further information:听 听 The Road to Timbuktu - Down the Niger on the Trail of Mungo Park Tom Fremantle
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
ISBN: 1841199699听
听 The Skeleton Coast - A听 three months journey through the Desert of Namibia听
Benedict Allen
Publisher: 大象传媒 Books
ISBN: 0563371811
Mad White Giant Benedict Allen
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571206174
The Explorer's Eye: First-Hand Accounts Of Adventure & Exploration (page 30)
Edited by Fergus Fleming and Annabel Merullo
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0 297 84381 8
Reading extracts:听
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917听 Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 1589760921
Next week:听
Ever thought of bouncing your baby across the Balearics ot taking your toddler to the Tundra ?听 We'll be travelling with children.
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Sandi Toksvig: The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life more info
John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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