The “Skeleton Coast”, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean in south-western Africa, is named after the bleached bones and shipwrecks that lie on its shores. This is Benedict Allen’s account of his thousand-mile trek with camels through...
The author, already adopted by a New Guinea village and tutored in tribal love during an initiation ceremony, now determines to experience the “natural” world in the light of this knowledge – how to worship and hunt in it....
From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers’ tales concerning black-maned ape-men as Theodore Hull – octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps – entices him onto the trail of the Gugu. A tangle...
An account of a perilous 3600-mile journey made in February 1993 – without compass or map – across the vast Amazon Basin, from the Andes of north-west South America through the tropical jungles of the lowlands to the dense...
Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies of the Sepik tribe, whose totemic god is the...
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