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    To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa
    To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa
    To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa
    Audiobook9 hours

    To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa

    Written by Nina Sovich

    Narrated by Amy McFadden

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    About this audiobook

    Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window spotted with Paris rain, she no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth travelling in Cairo, Lahore, and the West Bank staring back at her. Unwittingly, she had followed life’s script, and now she needed to cast it out.

    Inspired by female explorers like Mary Kingsley, who explored Gabon’s jungle in the 1890s, and Karen Blixen, who ran a farm in Kenya during World War I, Sovich packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure.

    To the Moon and Timbuktu takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. On Sovich’s travels, she encounters rough-and-tumble Chinese sailors, a Venezuelan doctor working himself to death in Chinguetti, indifferent French pensioners RVing along the coast, and a close-knit circle of Nigerien women who adopt her into their fold, showing her the promise of Africa’s future.

    This lyrical memoir will transport you to the breathtaking landscapes of West Africa, whose stark beauties will instill wonder in even the most experienced traveler. Sovich’s journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 9, 2013
    ISBN9781469283661
    To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa
    Author

    Nina Sovich

    Over the past decade, NINA SOVICH has written for The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, TIME, Fortune Small Business, and The Patriot Ledger. Most recently she was a wire reporter at Dow Jones and then at Reuters in Paris where she covered everything from fashion shows to banking reform.

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      Poor little affluent girl with envious french life. Nothing good enough and can only find herself and appreciate humanity in the back wash of Africa. Sometimes fascinating but sometimes so self indulgent it made the author of this memoir unlikable and could muster no connection or sympathy.