Dreams of a Vanishing Africa
Harrison, Craig S.![Dreams of a Vanishing Africa](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/328/32829421/CHSBZCOP0332829421.jpg)
When Craig Harrison spent a year traveling on a shoestring within the fabric of African societies in 1971-1972, he avoided safe, well-trodden routes. Instead, he depended on decrepit trains, cargo trucks, rattletrap buses, jammed bush taxis, dugout canoes, and ferries.Arriving in Spanish Sahara on a cargo ship from the Canary Islands, he trekked through Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Upper Volta, and Ghana. From Accra, he took a freighter ...