Getting There: Journeys Of An Accidental Adventurer
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Getting There: Journeys Of An Accidental Adventurer
by Sue Williams
“It’s Bill Bryson in a bra, taking on the world where only one law applies – Murphy’s!”
Adventurer, Author and Getaway star Sorrel Wilby
When Sue Williams set out on a ten-year series of journeys around the world, she expected glamour, excitement, a leisurely education. She simply didn’t bargain for disaster, spine-tingling terror and the kind of mind-numbing embarrassment that confronted her at nearly every turn.
Today, it makes fascinating, terrifying and hilarious reading. At the time, she just wanted to get home in one piece.
Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer isn’t like most travel books, all about pleasant destinations reached in air-conditioned comfort.
This one’s all about the actual journey, the battle to get there, and usually waged alone and unloved, yet with an indefatiguable, and totally inspirational, good humour. Her adventures include:
- Being abducted at gunpoint by army rebels in war-torn Uganda
- Hurtling down a mountainside in Ecuador crouched on a little wooden platform
- Waking up naked in a sleeping bag on a patch of wasteland in the Central African Republic with all her earthly possessions vanished
- Being stared at by a dozen curious onlookers as she took a pee in an open-plan toilet in Beijing
Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer was published in January 2001 by New Holland Publishers, rrp A$21.95
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