Footing with Sir Richard's Ghost

(Johannesburg: Sharp Sharp Media, 2006) 0620364017. 240 x 165 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 328, incl. index; profusely illustrated with evocative colour photographs and reproductions of period artwork. Earlier owner's bookplate to inside of upper cover. Near fine condition. "In 1863, English gentlemen Sir Richard George Glyn and his brother Robert came to Africa, lured to the continent by its big game and the astounding cascade that David Livingstone had recently 'discovered' and named the Victoria Falls. The brothers set off from Durban and, despite terrible trials, reached the Falls four and a half months later ... Richard kept a diary of their extraordinary odyssey, a journal that inspired his and Robert's great-great-grand niece, Patricia Glyn, to shadow their expedition in 2005. But unlike her ancestors, Patricia did the journey entirely on foot. Accompanied by her little African dog, Tapiwa, this remarkable woman walked nearly 2200 kilometres, following her forebears' route along the 19th-century wagon trails that once snaked along the great rivers of the subcontinent. ... Keeping strictly to the timetable set by Richard, she moved when his wagons moved, and stopped when they did - reaching the Falls on exactly the same day as her ancestors had, 142 years before her. This is the story of two brave adventures told through two illuminating, interwoven diaries." .