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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.0433092
EAN: 9781580051644
ISBN: 1580051642
Label: Seal Press
Manufacturer: Seal Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: August 11, 2006
Publisher: Seal Press
Sales Rank: 114907
Studio: Seal Press
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Product Description:
Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik is a spirited African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles.
Author and world traveler Marie Javins is an unflappable narrator, who takes even the most bizarre and patience-trying situations with a dose of good humor. Javins fell in love with Africa when she traversed the continent in 2001 as part of a larger world tour. She later returned to spend half of 2005 revisiting the people and places that had so impacted her on her first trip. Javins was struck not by the desperation of Africa, but by its hope — the dignity of its people, the vibrancy of its cities, and the inherent adventure that is inherent it offered.
Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik is a funny and compassionate account of the sort of lively and heedless undertaking that could only happen in Africa. Javins's brushes with wildlife are punctuated with more serious dilemmas. Through it all, Javins's experience of Africa is life-altering, and her witty observations make for the best kind of travel literature which takes its readers into the heart and soul of the continent.
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A total disappointment...this book has been written a thousand times before. Marie Javins' account is a simple retelling of what happened to her while traveling and unfortunately she seems blind to the opportunity to discover and interact with the amazing communities and cultures of the Africa people.
Not only was this a fairly boring read, it completely lacked a connection to the places. It was so general that she could have been traveling nearly anywhere; she did the bare minimum ... Read More
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Finished Marie Javins' Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik. Liked it in spite of myself, even though at first you think it is not that good. Then you realize that it IS good, really good. She is no Paul Theroux, nor is she trying to be. And that is all to her credit. She traveled up through Africa. He went Cairo to Capetown, she the reverse. Extremely different travels and travelers. She did things he would never be caught dead doing, like joining up with safari groups. As much as I liked his book a great ... Read More
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For the sake of full disclosure, I should mention that the author, Ms. Javins, is a friend of mine. Savvy internet users could probably figure that out anyway. Still, I believe my opinion is as valid as anybody else's. It's up to you to decide how biased my review is. I find myself in full agreement with most of the other customer reviews, but bewildered by a couple who just didn't seem to get it. Maybe they bought the book without reading any of the descriptions.
Though this book focuses ... Read More
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This is very disappointing, shallow, and simply about average tourist types with no insights offered. She apparently interacted only with other tourists, leaving Africans of various countries to be role players in her hotel, taxi, and trinket episodes. She colors this narrative with practically no desciptive writing of the terrain, agriculture, or cultural subtlties. It's all about herself and other visitors, mostly in game parks, offered without any character depth. She moved too fast to discover any. I am ... Read More
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I was seeking true account information about Africa and I found this book to be too negative with a focus mostly on the bad and not the beauty and good of Africa.
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