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Cape Town to Kilimanjaro
- The Third World as Seen from the Saddle
- Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
It is never too late to do something crazy wonderful. "Your mid-life crisis doesn't have to be boring." Eric de Jong, aged 60, took up mountain biking. The next thing you know, he was making "pinky-promises" with a fellow rider to ride from Cape Town to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Detouring off highways in search of roads less-traveled, Cape Town to Kilimanjaro is about having fun, doing good, and doing epic. Join Eric on his jaw-dropping, foot-cramping adventures through Africa, and he’ll make you laugh, cry, and will hopefully inspire.
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- Mark Bick
- 30-01-24
Entertaining at times but basically a blog read out loud
I thought this was an actual travel story written as a complete book however it seems a blog was written along the way and this is just a compilation of that read out loud. Some sections are very short so you get the regular sign off cropping up every few minutes which gets a bit annoying.
Also having visited South Africa recently a lot of the complaining about white people losing out started to feel a bit like the history of the original African people had been forgotten and that any white people living in any of the African countries, even if there families had been there for several generations, had at some point profited from the original owners.
I think if read as the blog and dipping into it occasionally it probably wouldn’t annoy as much but listening for half an hour or more at a time, the initial interest and amusement over the misadventures of the various cyclists seemed trivial compared to the real history of the land his group traveled through.
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