Stumbling Over Eden
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"Standing at the top of Mount Toubkal, the highest mountain in North Africa, I looked East towards the Sahara Desert and knew I had found my own adventure."
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Stumbling Over Eden - the new book from Steve Bonham - a unique opportunity to purchase a signed copy of the first edition.
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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"moving, informative, unusual, entertaining and …a sort of warning to other middle aged adventurers!"
Robert Twigger - best selling author of The Red Nile, Walking The Great North Line, I read this book from cover to cover in one go. I love travel and adventures, and if you do too, this is the book for you. From the wonderful descriptions I really felt the intense heat and sheer slog of walking 570 kilometres across North Africa. 'My clothes walked home on their own' says it all. It's not just a travelogue, either, but full of wonderful, intelligent insights as you would expect from a psychologist and philosopher. Having read the book, I truly wish I'd shared the adventure.***** Roseline Swaine, Amazon Review
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I know it’s touched my heart and soul. A compelling read of what you can do if you have the imagination to believe in a dream, can dig deep inside to find the courage to make it happen and ultimately trust yourself to come out the other side. Utterly fascinating and thought provoking.
Natalia Richards - acclaimed author of The Falcon's Rise and The Falcon's Flight. |
