Take two trucks, an incompetent expedition leader and fifty hapless passengers. Mix with drought, disease, theft, thuggery and ignorance, and you have a recipe for an overland trip like no other.Long Haul Through Africa tells the story of the author's disaster-prone journey through parts of the continent now closed to tourists.The expedition was the first overland company to attempt a crossing of the dried bed of Lake Chad following years of civil war - a decision which they barely survived.It is a personal account of African nations on the cusp of transformation - and of individual transformation too

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