This travel book offers a description of a lone bicycle journey along the River Nile from the Mediterranean to the heartlands of Africa. Bettina Selby is a grandmother in her fifties who took up long-distance bicycling after her children had left home. Travelling alone on her "all-terrain bicycle", she met a wide variety of people, from Western aid officials and hospitable Arabs to warring Sudanese. She tells of the adventures which befall a solitary traveller in remote and war-torn countries. Her journey covers many different sights, including the temples of Ancient Egypt, General Gordon's Khartoum, the Nubian desert, Lake Victoria and the eternal snows of the Mountains of the Moon.
- ISBN10 0701132310
- ISBN13 9780701132316
- Publish Date 21 April 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 April 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English