After reading this book, I am thinking here of the old saw to the effect that God protects children and idiots. Having come of age during that amazing period from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, when one could hitch-hike practically anywhere safely—before the crazies and serial-killers became so common—this book brought back so many wonderful memories of what it was like during that period just to pick up stakes and go see part of the world, albeit a part…..
5.0 out of 5 stars An expert memoir of 1970’s equatorial Africa. Craig Harrison’s “Dreams of a Vanishing Africa” is a superb travel memoir. Harrison is a smooth, capable writer. Most of all though, he possesses the skills demanded by top level travel writing: Keen eyes, ears, olfaction and a continuing sense of rhythm and tone for the road. All the “heavy hitters” of overall travel writing possessed this, e.g. Sir Richard Burton, D.H. Lawrence in his “Sea and Sardinia”…..
Tim Carey was born and raised in central Africa before moving to the UK and subsequently emigrating to Canada. He had difficulty posting his review below on Amazon, and said he would have given it 5 stars. It’s a long time since I left my roots in Central Africa, but reading Craig Harrison’s book “Dreams of a Vanishing Africa” brought memories flooding back with his descriptions of people, places and related experiences that he encountered as he travelled through west,…..
With Dreams of a Vanishing Africa, Craig Harrison takes us back to a time and a continent nearly unimaginable today. His intensely personal accounting of his journeys reminds us that there once was a time when young adventurers could hitchhike and travel in Africa on a shoestring budget with little worry about being robbed, or worse. He relates his interactions with local peoples and fellow travelers – some good, some not so good, but never bad enough to cause him…..
Welcome. My name is Craig S. Harrison, author of Dreams of a Vanishing Africa. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Dreams of a Vanishing Africa, expanding on some of the topics in it and blogging on some of the ideas…..