Long Haul

In 1986, with a freshly redundant job, a dangerously optimistic outlook, and a wallet full of cash, the author answered a small advert in Private Eye and accidentally signed up to cross Africa in a pair of elderly Bedford trucks. What followed was not a carefully curated "e;journey of self-discovery,"e; but a rolling, rattling, frequently ill-advised expedition through deserts, jungles, war zones,...