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Africa Notes addresses the following question: How are exceptional travel experiences, especially ones taken to realize life-long dreams, not only integrated into your memories, but also informed by your past experiences, your knowledge, and your values? In this sense, the book’s theme is transferable to other aspects of human lives as well as to experiences that are not necessarily chosen but nevertheless have a major impact on our personal futures. There is plenty of biology in Africa Notes, but that biology is quite different from what you would find in the rest of the tourism or ...

What do you do when a bucket list goal turns into one long week that changes you forever? Bethany and Vince are a dating couple who decide to climb Mt Kilimanjaro together. They had no idea how this treacherous journey would challenge them as a couple and individually. They lost a climber at the summit and a piece of them still remains on that mountaintop. The seven days they spent on the side of a mountain forging relationships with the strangers they met in their group changed them forever. They saw tragedy, experienced tears and devastation, and the reward of accomplishment. This story ...

From his early childhood days in St. Ives, Eric had always known he was destined for a life at sea, and he has already told the story of his Merchant Navy cadet training on HMS Worcester in his book Yes, Dad I Want to Go to Sea! After his training with HMS Worcester, Eric worked as an apprentice with the Ellerman and Bucknall Steamship Company, where he gained his Chief Officer’s Certificate. Following this he joined the Palm Line as a Second Officer. Here he remembers his five years with the Palm Line from 1960 to 1965. During this time he served in fourteen of the company’s ships, ...