Join international best-selling author and ex-pat Brit Mark Williams on the first part of this odyssey through the history, geography, culture and daily life of the country he calls his home - The Gambia and the region he calls his back yard - West Africa.
Part memoir, part travelogue, part...
If you like Bill Bryson's meandering travelogues that leave no stone unturned to share the author's fascination with the world around him, you'll love West Africa Is My Back Yard.
Part two of the series coming soon to an ebook retailer, subscription service or digital library near you.
Genre: TRAVEL / GeneralA new release so no sales histoiry to report, but this title has already hit number one in category on Amazon and will tap into the market that is the hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit The gambia every year.
Countries don’t come much tinier than The Gambia. At three hundred miles long and just thirty miles wide, The Gambia is the smallest country on the African mainland, as well as one of the poorest. A thin finger of land poking unceremoniously into the side of its much larger and richer neighbour, Senegal.
If you’ve heard of The Gambia at all then it’s likely a) you are confusing it with Zambia, b) you’ve got a map fetish like me and are just as comfortable retiring for the night with an atlas for your bedtime reading as with the latest bestselling novel, or c) you know someone who has been to The Gambia on a winter-sun holiday.
Because at the western end of that aforementioned three hundred mile finger of land are thirty miles of stupefyingly beautiful picture-postcard white sandy beaches and casually swaying picture-postcard green palm trees, where the picture-postcard blue Atlantic Ocean gently laps the picture-postcard shoreline beneath picture-postcard blue skies and a picture-postcard blistering yellow sun that has the exceedingly endearing habit of shining pretty much non-stop through the winter months.
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French
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Translated by Luiz Antonio de Albuquerque Filho
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Italian
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Author review: Excellent! Great communications, fast work and a great translation! |
