Horizon Fever I - LARGE PRINT: Explorer A E Filby's own account of his extraordinary expedition through Africa 1931-1935

Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born but his unpublished manuscript Horizon Fever and many scrapbooks survived. Proclaimed the Worlds most travelled motorist A E Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions including his 37000 mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars.Horizon Fever is an honest colourful often shocking account; a snapshot of bygone days and attitudes. It tells of missionaries pygmies big-game hunting gold-mining crossing the Sahara and swimming in the Nile with crocodiles. One of Archies companions was a monkey called Congo. Another was a dog that adopted him until it was killed and dragged up a tree by a leopard. Archie himself comes across as a courageous feisty quick-tempered bossy little man but full of fun generous and never one to bear a grudge.Thanks to Archies records and photographs we have a unique glimpse of an astonishing feat of endurance 80 years after it was completed. --Victoria Twead