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10 December 2005
John McCarthy is in Ethiopian rebel country and discovers the best way to stay safe when travelling.
ETHIOPIA
Philip Marsden first visited Ethiopia in the early 1980s, at the age of twenty-one.听 He had hoped to visit Tigray and the ancient capital of Aksum, but was prevented from doing so because the country was then under the Marxist Derg regime.听 Twenty years later, Philip returned to Ethiopia and made an arduous 400 mile trek over the mountains to complete his journey.听 He recounts his experience in his latest book Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance.
TRAVEL SURVIVAL
Biographer and travel writer, Sara Wheeler spent seven months in the Antarctic researching her book, Terra Incognita, in the mid-1990s.听 Sara has travelled extensively in many parts of the world and went through rigorous training, including time at Survival School, to prepare for her exploits.
Doug Lansky is the author of the Rough Guide to Travel Survival.听 He has travelled to more than 100 countries and shares some practical advice for staying safe and well, while away.听
Presented by John McCarthy
This week's guests:听
Philip Marsden is the author of The Spirit-wrestlers, The Crossing Place: Journey Among the Armenians, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, The Bronski House and A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia.
Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007173474
Sara Wheeler is a traveller, journalist and broadcaster.听 As the first woman selected by the American government to be the "Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station" she spent six weeks at the pole.听 Sara has lived in a Buddhist retreat in Japan, canoed up the Amazon and travelled extensively in South America, as well as Bangladesh, India, Nepal and large parts of Europe.听 Her forthcoming biography of Denys Finch Hatton will be published next year.
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099731819听
听is the author of The Rough Guide to Travel Survival.听听Although his travels have been mostly free of trouble, he has managed to survive a bus accident in Namibia, a machete in the Columbian rainforest, being run over by a car in Thailand. Eaten bugs and experiencing almost half of the medical ailments in the medical dictionary have been part of Doug's extensive experience.
Rough Guide to Travel Survival
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 1843534061
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