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Tables of Contents for Lonely Planet on the Edge
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Copyright Acknowledgements
ix
Foreword
xiii
Tony Wheeler
Introduction
1
4
Cecil Kuhne
AFRICA
To Timbuktu
5
7
Mark Jenkins
The Fearful Void: Across the Implacable Sahara, a man Goes in Search of Himself
12
7
Geoffrey Moorhouse
From Cape to Cairo: An African Odyssey
19
5
David Ewing Duncan
The shadow of Kilimanjaro: On foot across East Africa
24
4
Rick Ridgeway
Drums along the Congo: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur
28
8
Rory Nugent
Africa Solo: A Journey across the Sahara, Sahel, and Congo
36
11
Kevin Kertscher
OCEANIA
One for the Road: Hitchhiking through the Australian Outback
47
12
Tony Horwitz
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot across Borneo
59
7
Eric Hansen
The Last Grain Race
66
9
Eric Newby
Serpent in Paradise
75
5
Dea Birkett
Travels with a Kayak
80
6
Whit Deschner
Tracks
86
7
Robyn Davidson
ANTARCTICA
Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica
93
5
Deborah Shapiro
Rolf Bjelke
Shadows on the Wasteland
98
9
Mike Stroud
NORTH AMERICA
Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk around the Coast of Baja California
107
9
Graham Mackintosh
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
116
6
Pico Iyer
Rolling Nowhere
122
5
Ted Conover
Tracks across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
127
8
Alastair Scott
SOUTH AMERICA
In Trouble Again: A Journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
135
9
Redmond O'Hanlon
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train through the Americas
144
7
Paul Theroux
The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey from South America
151
6
Tom Miller
Touching the Void
157
10
Joe Simpson
EUROPE
On celtic Tides: One Man's Journey around Ireland by Sea Kayak
167
5
Chris Duff
The Olive Grove: Travels in Greece
172
6
Katherine Kizilos
Stealing from a Deep Place: Travels in Southeastern Europe
178
9
Brain Hall
ASIA
A Boat in Our Baggage: Around the World with a Kayak
187
8
Maria Coffey
Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures along China's Ancient silk road
195
4
Stuart Stevens
The Size of the World
199
9
Jeff Greenwald
Full Tilt: Ireland to India on a Bicycle
208
5
Dervla Murphy
In Xanadu: A Quest
213
8
William Dalrymple
THE MOON
Men from Earth
221
6
Buzz Aldrin
Macolm McConnell
Notes on Contributors
227