With richly evocative images and wonderfully entertaining anecdotes, Caroline Alexander transports you towards the dense interior of equatorial Gabon. IN A SINGLE Dry Period, she chronicles her activities as she makes her way by itself through dangerously primitive territory. When she first go through of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley’s travels in the French colony of Gabon, Alexander knew she had to experience the present-day nation for herself. Soon she actually is retracing Kingsley’s route-struggling through tangled vines in humid rain forests, chugging up the churning OgoouE River in a packed steamer, and fending off gigantic cockroaches. The united states she discovers is certainly a challenging mixture of Africa’s amazing past and its practical present. An outstanding storyteller, Caroline Alexander presents you to the vibrant new friends she produced along the trail including a shy objective nun, a half-mad French girl, and a village key who treated her as an errant teenaged child. Lisette Lecat’s expert narration brings out all the excitement of today’s Africa.