{"product_id":"9781836282570","title":"Lay Down Your Heart : Retracing Stanley's journey of 1871 in search of Dr Livingstone by George Tardios","description":"This account of a journey for which few predicted a happy outcome before or after it began - with struggles through unforgiving terrain, close encounters with hostile animals, and a disastrous camp fire - has turned out to be not only a full-on survival story but also a rare time-capsule of life in Central Africa in the early era of independence. The author shares his enjoyment of a rich variety of people encountered, from astonished children first seeing white faces to great-grandparents with family memories of Victorian explorers.   A fed-up city-dweller's idea of retracing on foot Stanley's 1,200-mile expedition of 1871 originated in his boyhood reading of the American explorer's classic account. Stanley's team had been nearly 200 men; George Tardios's for his equally historic expedition was himself, his wife and a young friend.   With eight pages of photographic illustrations, this diary-based account of a journey accomplished 40 years ago has had to await the author's thorough physical and mental recovery from it, further years earning a living in Tanzania, and self-reinvention in a changed England.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307758039413,"sku":"9781836282570","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836282570.jpg?v=1762805172","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781836282570","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}