Questa autrice incarna un immenso coraggio, un occhio attento ai dettagli e un'insaziabile curiosità per le persone locali e le loro culture, ponendola tra le esploratrici leggendarie. Il suo stile letterario è intriso di profondo rispetto per le tradizioni e di ricche intuizioni derivanti da straordinarie avventure attraverso i continenti. Attraverso i suoi scritti, condivide una prospettiva unica plasmata da viaggi attraverso Africa, Asia e Oceania. La sua opera esplora l'esperienza umana con un marcato senso del dettaglio e una comprensione delle diverse culture.
An account of an exhilarating adventure across West Africa, from the Cameroun rain forest via the Sahara an Tombouctou. Christina Dodwell always chooses an unorthodox means of travel, but mircolight is the most unusual yet. As well as the danger involved it also had the great advantage of getting her to areas in accessible t ground transport and allowing her to land whenever she wished to explore. She met duck-billed women, pygmies, a mountain sorcerer, dancers and nomads. She canoed on Lake Chad, flew through a dust storm, rode a camel into the Air Mountains and - most memorable of all her many adventures - discovered a dinosaur graveyard.
In the late 1980s, Christina Dodwell moves from a Greek Easter into a chilly Eastern Turkish spring, not improved for the cold and hungry traveller by the fairly strict observance of Ramadan. Retreating east, she visits the buried cities and rock-hewn churches of Cappadocia on the first of a number of hired, borrowed or bought horses, the ideal liberating companions for her unconventional style of travel.While the snow still clothes the eastern mountains, the Long Rider moves further east over the border into Iran, to a ranch breeding miniature Caspian horses near the Russian frontier, to the salt desert villages of the south-east, and on into Pakistan for a visa renewal, the unity of her journey maintained by the fact that she is still within the confines of the Persian empire, as she celebrates the end of Ramadan in a festive village near the Afghan border.Back in Iran, she visits the crumbling grandiloquence of lost empires at Pasargad, Naksh-i-Rustam and Persepolis, as well as the trouble spots of yesterday and today in the valleys of the Assassins and Kurdistan. But her journey reaches its happiest fulfilment back in Eastern Turkey when she buys a fine grey Arab stallion called Keyif — the name aptly means high-spirited. Together they travel among snow caps, salt lakes, nomadic summer camps and lowland rice paddies, across mountain country from Erzurum to Lake Van, up the Russian border to Mount Ararat, and discover the unexpected pleasures and hazards of remote mountain life.The Sunday Telegraph has described Christina as “a natural nomad” and wrote of “her courage and insatiable wanderlust.”Christina has the gift to communicate the zest for adventure, and even the occasional night in an Iranian police cell cannot dim her sheer delight in travelling to remote and challenging places.
