Stumbling Over EdenStumbling over Eden is an account of the adventures of – in his own words – ‘a slightly overweight bloke from Derby with a dodgy knee’ who takes on a physically and emotionally challenging 540km trek ‘from the mountains to the desert’ across North Africa. A voyage of self-discovery as well as real discovery, it is a journey of serendipity, embracing the different and accepting the unexpected.
What results is a fantastical tale involving a Krupp cannon, arrest, being tailed by the secret service, the lairs of old warlords, a spirit dog, a lost tribe of dwarfs and an amorous camel. But more than that, it is a story of resilience, companionship, independence, the strange weave of history and the true meaning of adventure. Steve Bonham is an award-winning psychologist, a musician, an adventurer and a vagabond philosopher. He is the author of A Little Nostalgia for Freedom, A Beautiful Broken Dream and How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World. "To embark on an adventure puts you in the flow of the unfolding world, and this is the way of the vagabond. To be a vagabond is an ancient calling; it is to move across the earth unbound by expectation or control. It is to adopt the clear but compassionate gaze of the outsider. Being a vagabond also has the piquancy of being subversive. Our betters do not like us to move and see for ourselves." -
from the Prologue |
This book is for walkers, dreamers, adventurous spirits, vagabond souls, the hopeful, the slightly nuts, the rarely-dismayed. Also wanderers, seekers, sorcerers, and scoundrels. For those who believe in the road...
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