A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers. He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis. He will cross seven, very different countries. No one has ever made this journey on foot. Exploration and Africa are two of his great passions - they drive him on and motivate his inquisitiveness and resolution not to fail, yet the challenges of the terrain, the climate, the animals, the people and his own psychological resolution will throw at him are immense. The dangers are very real, but so is the motivation for this ex-army officer. If he can overcome the mental and physical challenges, he will be walking into history...
Levison Wood is a professional explorer, writer and photographer. He founded the pioneering expedition service Secret Compass, leading groups in post conflict areas and remote wildernesses on five continents. He has travelled in over 80 countries worldwide, once hitchhiking overland to India from the UK. Levison spent several years as an officer in the Parachute Regiment where he saw active service on the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2008. Since then he has managed a charity project delivering ambulances to Malawi by driving them overland from London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
