Chasing the Lizard's Tail
Subtitle: By Bicycle Across the Sahara (Travellers' Tales)
Publisher: Impact Books Ltd
Published: April 1, 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781874687368
Subjects: Travel writing; The Sahara
First sentence: Four wheezy old men in wrinkled grey and brown jellabas sit silently around the café table beside me, sipping coffee and smoking kif marijuana from carved cherry-wood pipes.
Description: A travelogue describing an eighteen-year-old's first encounter with Africa… alone by bicycle from Manchester (UK) to the Gambia, straight across the western Sahara (Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania), all for no other reason than that it sounded like a good idea at the time. Interwoven in the narrative of the life-changing experience are the histories and cultures of the people of northwestern Africa.
Notes: The original publisher went bankrupt around 2000. Since then the full text of Chasing the Lizard's Tail has been freely accessible online at http://www.bluegecko.org/lizard/, courtesy of the author.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The Rif Mountains; label: 2
title: Fès; label: 3
title: The Atlas Mountains; label: 4
title: The Tafilalt; label: 5
title: The Moroccan Sahara; label: 6
title: The Western Sahara; label: 7
title: Mauritania; label: 8
title: The Adrar Mountains; label: 9
title: Chasing the Lizard's Tail; label: 10
title: Nouakchott and the Sahel; label: 11
title: Senegal; label: 12
title: Dakar; label: 13
title: The Gambia and Banjul