num_pages: 150
description: From the Preface:Adventure is perhaps unwise - a temptress from security. The reason is often obscure. Sir John Hunt climbed Mount Everest ... because Everest is there! Adventure fascinates many; a few succumb to her call. There is a magic in the distance where the sky-line meets the earth.In the pages that follow I have tried to convey the impressions of a modest adventure - a Saharan crossing in an unorthodox vehicle driven by myself and navigated by my wife Nita. For us both this was our first real adventure. We WANTED to cross the mighty Sahara Desert. This was itself the magnet. British West Africa and a freer life the motive...
language: English
title: Desert Taxi: The Story of an Achievement by a Veteran London Taxi-Cab
publisher: The Travel Book Club