{"product_id":"9781836282570-lay-down-my-heart","title":"Lay Down Your Heart","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRetracing Stanley’s journey of 1871 in search of Dr Livingstone\u003cbr\u003eA first-hand survival story of an unusually daring and ambitious expedition on foot through 1,200 miles of East Central Africa. It conveys the immediacy of the experience, from life-threatening encounters to moments of perfect peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis account of a journey for which few predicted a happy outcome before or after it began – with struggles through unforgiving terrain, close encounters with hostile animals, and a disastrous camp fire – has turned out to be not only a full-on survival story but also a rare time-capsule of life in Central Africa in the early era of independence. The author shares his enjoyment of a rich variety of people encountered, from astonished children first seeing white faces to great-grandparents with family memories of Victorian explorers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fed-up city-dweller’s idea of retracing on foot Stanley’s 1,200-mile expedition of 1871 originated in his boyhood reading of the American explorer’s classic account. Stanley’s team had been nearly 200 men; George Tardios’s for his equally historic expedition was himself, his wife and a young friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith eight pages of photographic illustrations, this diary-based account of a journey accomplished 40 years ago has had to await the author’s thorough physical and mental recovery from it, further years earning a living in Tanzania, and self-reinvention in a changed England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56500063273334,"sku":"9781836282570","price":15.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36790283_7c471f9e-07b0-4352-9aad-a7827ace2141.jpg?v=1761251381","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781836282570-lay-down-my-heart","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}