Determined to become the first person in recorded history to walk the length of the Zambezi River, David Lemon set out from the source in North Western Zambia in April 2012. He was sixty seven years old at the time and carried a pack weighing thirty four kilograms on his back.
Equipped with only the basics and carrying ten weeks worth of food, he struggled through flood plains, thick bush and gorges losing vast amounts of weight in the process, but meeting many wonderful people along the way.
One hundred and eighty seven days later, he was forced by malaria and other ailments to pull out of the venture after eighteen hundred and thirty seven kilometres and returned to Britain, where he wrote about the problems in Cowbells Down the Zambezi. Fifteen months later, he returned to the Zambian town of Siavonga to resume his walk from the point at which he had ended the first leg.
Hit hard by malaria, leg ulcers and the debilitating heat of the Mozambican countryside, he struggled on through various adventures and hardships until he reached the Indian Ocean after two hundred and ninety two days of walking, during which he covered in excess of three thousand kilometres.
At times, the journey became a nightmare, but he received help from unexpected quarters and eventually achieved his goal, three months short of his seventieth birthday. In Livingstone’s Footsteps delves deep into the soul of a remarkable man and is an inspiring read for anyone. Lemon proves that with determination, mental strength and a will to succeed, the almost impossible becomes achievable.
David Lemon is a man with adventure in his soul. Passionate to the point of fanaticism about elephants, conservation and the damage being done to his beloved Africa, he travels around Britain lecturing on the subject. The author of thirteen previous books, he is based in rural England, but returns to Africa on a regular basis for what he calls his ‘silly little adventures.’
Equipped with only the basics and carrying ten weeks worth of food, he struggled through flood plains, thick bush and gorges losing vast amounts of weight in the process, but meeting many wonderful people along the way.
One hundred and eighty seven days later, he was forced by malaria and other ailments to pull out of the venture after eighteen hundred and thirty seven kilometres and returned to Britain, where he wrote about the problems in Cowbells Down the Zambezi. Fifteen months later, he returned to the Zambian town of Siavonga to resume his walk from the point at which he had ended the first leg.
Hit hard by malaria, leg ulcers and the debilitating heat of the Mozambican countryside, he struggled on through various adventures and hardships until he reached the Indian Ocean after two hundred and ninety two days of walking, during which he covered in excess of three thousand kilometres.
At times, the journey became a nightmare, but he received help from unexpected quarters and eventually achieved his goal, three months short of his seventieth birthday. In Livingstone’s Footsteps delves deep into the soul of a remarkable man and is an inspiring read for anyone. Lemon proves that with determination, mental strength and a will to succeed, the almost impossible becomes achievable.
David Lemon is a man with adventure in his soul. Passionate to the point of fanaticism about elephants, conservation and the damage being done to his beloved Africa, he travels around Britain lecturing on the subject. The author of thirteen previous books, he is based in rural England, but returns to Africa on a regular basis for what he calls his ‘silly little adventures.’
