Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. --Victoria Twead.
Thanks to Archie\'s records and photographs, we have a unique glimpse of an astonishing feat of endurance, 80 years after it was completed.
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.
Another was a dog that adopted him, until it was killed and dragged up a tree by a leopard.
One of Archie\'s companions was a monkey called Congo.
It tells of missionaries, pygmies, big-game hunting, gold-mining, crossing the Sahara and swimming in the Nile with crocodiles. \'Horizon Fever\' is an honest, colourful, often shocking account; a snapshot of bygone days and attitudes.
Proclaimed "the World\'s most travelled motorist", A E Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000 mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars.
He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, \'Horizon Fever\', and many scrapbooks, survived.
Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie
