A HAT, A KAYAK & DREAMS OF DAR

212pp., illus., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2017

In 1967, South African journalist and author Terry Bell and his wife Barbara decided to return to Africa after years in exile in the UK, and chose to paddle 11 000km from Chiswick in London to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

"This is a crazy journey only true love could tolerate, in a time when everything seemed possible." Don Pinnock, author of Gang Town and The Last Elephants

Terry Bell's books include Fordsburg Fighter: the journey of an MK volunteer; Comrade Moss: a political journey and Unfinished business, South Africa, apartheid and truth.