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'In June 1975, Australian couple Annette and Win Henderson find themselves stranded in Libreville, Gabon, after travelling halfway across Africa. When a thief robs their Kombiban, they are left penniless, with no way to go back and no way to go on. They are saved by a chance meeting with a local expat, who offers them work at a remote mining camp in the mountains, close to the Congo border, in a region never visited by tourists and accessible only by canoe.
At the camp, Annette battles isolation, culture shock and the challenges of a job for which she is ill-prepared. She finds solace and joy in the vast equatorial forest - a world as enthralling as any David Attenborough film - but when she becomes surrogate parent to an orphaned baby gorilla, Josie, her life changes forever.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For Win, who dragged me kicking and screaming into a life of adventure and introduced me to the natural world.
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A Desert Adventure
2012
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— Appears in: Contact , Winter 2012; (p. 6-7) -
The Bumpy Road of Travel Memoir
2012
single work
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— Appears in: Writing Queensland , September no. 222 2012; (p. 6-7) -
Distant Relatives
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 29 April - 5 May no. 732 2009; (p. 14)
— Review of Wild Spirit : How a Year in the African Rainforest Changed an Australian Woman's Life 2009 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May/June vol. 88 no. 8 2009; (p. 33)
— Review of Wild Spirit : How a Year in the African Rainforest Changed an Australian Woman's Life 2009 single work autobiography -
African Adventure
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Contact , Winter 2009; (p. 26-27)
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Non-Fiction Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 - 31 May 2009; (p. 24)
— Review of Wild Spirit : How a Year in the African Rainforest Changed an Australian Woman's Life 2009 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May/June vol. 88 no. 8 2009; (p. 33)
— Review of Wild Spirit : How a Year in the African Rainforest Changed an Australian Woman's Life 2009 single work autobiography -
Distant Relatives
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 29 April - 5 May no. 732 2009; (p. 14)
— Review of Wild Spirit : How a Year in the African Rainforest Changed an Australian Woman's Life 2009 single work autobiography -
African Adventure
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Contact , Winter 2009; (p. 26-27) -
The Bumpy Road of Travel Memoir
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , September no. 222 2012; (p. 6-7) -
A Desert Adventure
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: Contact , Winter 2012; (p. 6-7)
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cGabon,cWest / Central Africa, Africa,
- 1970s