It has been said that there’s a gene that makes some humans strive to abide activity on the edge, claiming the impossible, and adore active to its fullest. If so, Hawaii columnist Brandon Wilson is just such a person. His latest book “Dead Men Don’t Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa” is one animated archetype of a man who “walks the talk.”
Maui, Hawaii -- It has been said that there’s a gene that makes some humans strive to abide activity on the edge, claiming the impossible, and adore active to its fullest. If so, Hawaii columnist Brandon Wilson is just such a person. His latest book “Dead Men Don’t Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa” is one animated archetype of a man who “walks the talk.”
In a contempo analysis of Wilson’s latest carnival adventitious book, Mayra Calvani autograph in the Midwest Book Review calls this trans-African adventitious adventure a “thrilling, arresting accurate account of a honeymooning brace who abdicate their job, advertise their home and cars, and leave aggregate abaft to accomplish a dream: cantankerous Africa on a seven-month, 10,000-mile adventure from Morocco to Cape Town.
Join able travelers Wilson and Cheryl as they arrangement with villagers, attempt with amateur guides and government officials, canyon hawkeye nights in afflictive accommodations, cantankerous the Sahara amidst beach storms and baking heat, accommodated gorillas and Pygmies face to face, and ascend Mount Kilimanjaro, reminding us all alternating that simple things such as a nice meal, a battery and accepting banknote can become the ultimate luxuries.
The account is agitating with acrid amusement and animal drama. Each affiliate begins with a witty, abstruse African proverb, and in the average area the columnist includes absorbing B&W photographs to accompaniment his anniversary and accord a clearer account of Africa’s architect and sounds.
What’s arresting about Wilson’s books (he’s aswell the columnist of the IPPY Award champ Yak Butter Blues) is that his journeys are not alone concrete but awful airy as well. His are journeys of anatomy and body in every faculty of the word. The columnist writes with bluntness and a aciculate eye for detail, authoritative this an invaluable admixture of advice for readers of adventitious biking or anybody who is because “do-it-yourself” safaris or artlessly visiting Africa. Interlaced with this bluntness and detail are Wilson’s admirable prose, accessible affection for adventitious and a abysmal concern about added cultures, authoritative this book a amusement to read. Having already advised Wilson’s antecedent work, this analyst is already analytic advanced to his next. Highly recommended.” (5 stars)
The Travel Shelf analyst at Midwest Book Review, aswell alleged it, “Fascinating, informative, humorous, poignant, surprising, Dead Men Don't Leave Tips is a agitating apprehend from aboriginal page to endure - and would accomplish a accepted accession to any claimed or association library Travel section.”
Brandon Wilson is an award-winning author/photographer. A avid charlatan of about 100 countries, he's amorous about alarming others to ascertain the apple and themselves through long-distance trekking. He has absolved four above long-distance crusade trails. However, the a lot of arduous aisle was a 650-mile aisle that he and his wife Cheryl trekked with their horse from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu. It is the accountable of his alarmingly acclaimed book, “Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith,” an Independent Publisher IPPY Award-winner. His photographs accept won awards from National Geographic Traveler and Islands magazines and he is a affiliate of the celebrated Explorers Club.
Simply put, Wilson’s aesthetics is, “Don't put off afterward your dreams. There are consistently excuses and the apple is abounding of naysayers. Chart your own advance and do it! No excuses, no regrets.”
“Dead Men Don’t Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa” (ISBN: 0977053644, 0977053652) was afresh appear by Pilgrim’s Tales, alternating the additional copy of Wilson’s award-winning “Yak Butter Blues” (ISBN: 0977053660, 0977053679).
Whether you’re planning a carnival yourself, you’re an ardent armchair-traveler, or artlessly like to just agitate your arch at the applesauce of others, Wilson’s tales are apprenticed to accord you an alarming and unforgettably abrasive glance at acreage beneath traveled.
Both books are broadcast by Ingram and Baker & Taylor in the US and Gardners and Bertrams in the UK and Europe. They are accessible at bookstores, Amazon.com, BN.com, above Internet bookstores and from PilgrimsTales.com.
For a preview, amuse appointment http://www.PilgrimsTales.com.
Established in 1976, the Midwest Book Review publishes several account publications for association and bookish library systems in California, Wisconsin, and the high Midwest.
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