Waypoints : a journey on foot
Martineau, Robert2022
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Unhappy in his office job, Robert Martineau craves an experience that will shake his feeling of inertia. Aged 27, he buys a flight to Accra, and begins to walk. He walks 1,000 miles through Ghana, Togo and Benin, to Ouidah, an ancient animist centre on the West African coast. Martineau walks alone across desert, through rainforests, over mountains, carrying everything he needs on his back, sleeping in villages or on the side of paths, travelling shrine to shrine. Along the way he meets shamans, priests, local historians, archaeologists and kings. He begins to confront the lines of slavery and exploitation that binds his home to theirs. Through the process of walking each day, and the lessons of those he walks among, Martineau starts to find the freedom he craves, and to build connections with the natural world and the past.
Main title:
Waypoints : a journey on foot / Robert Martineau.
Author:
Martineau, Robert, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2022.
Collation:
xiv, 258 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2021.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781784709921 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
916.604T/MART910.4 MART916.604 MART916.604 MAR
Language:
English
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BRN:
2256172
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