VaP. forward exclusively on Wednesday a new chapter in the book African Javier Reverte, "Hills burning, Fire lakes (New travels in Africa)”. Send your questions to the writer (vap@viajesalpasado.com) and win one of five copies dedicated by the author who will draw from our readers.
Reverte has his usual expertise on a walking tour of the north of Kenya, performed in 2008, from the City of Mararal -Samburu territory- to the vicinity of lago Turkana, one of the most desolate and wild regions of Africa. VaP. collaborator conducted a year after the second of the travel told in his new book, in this case by western Tanzania and Zambia. His aim was twofold: navigate the lago Tanganyka on an old freighter of the days when the territory was a German colony (ceased to be the end of the Great War 1914-18) and visit Chitambo, the place where he died Livingstone and where his heart is buried.
Reverte toured the Samburu territory, sailed on a freighter on Lake Tanganyika and visited the grave of Livingstone in Chitambo
Javier Reverte is the author of "The Dream of Africa", "Wanderer in Africa", "Africa's Missing Roads", "Heart of Ulysses", "The river of desolation", "The river of light", "In wild seas", "One way ticket", "Adventure travel" and the biography "God, the devil and adventure "; and the novels "Trilogy of Central America", "Lord Paco", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "All the dreams of the world", "The night arrested", "The doctor of Ifni", "Thy Kingdom Come", "The song Mbama" and poems "Traces of stowaway" and "African Poetry".
