A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa: Tracks Across a Life

by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, Esther D Rothblum, Hanny Lightfoot Klein

Book Overview

Here is the intriguing story of one woman's mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156023007X
• ISBN13: 9781560230076
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A master storyteller who is also self-revealing

The courage of the author to undertake her adventure of traveling in Africa solo with a backpack at age 50 is indeed compelling. She is a natural storyteller, yet opens up to reveal her own inner struggles based on a difficult childhood with manipulative parents. Her reporting of the practice of "female circumcision" in parts of Africa is introduced in the book as she was doing research. However, as horrible a thing as this is, she helps the Westerner understand where it comes from and how it plays an integral part in that culture even today while at the same time she fights to abolish it. I didn't want this book to end. I would read another book by her in a nanosecond. She's inspiring, honest, and courageous.