Something Lost Behind The Ranges

by John Blashford-Snell

The adventure-packed autobiography of legendary explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell.

It is not difficult to see why former Royal Engineers Colonel John Blashford-Snell has been dubbed ‘the British Indiana Jones’. His expeditions have become the stuff of legend – and yet in his case the tales that he has lived to tell are fact rather than fiction.

Whatever terrain or environment you care to think of – rain-soaked jungle, snake-infested swamp, scorching desert or raging torrent – Blashford-Snell has hacked, waded, sweated or paddled his way through it. He it was who led the first descent of the fearsome Blue Nile, who forced the first vehicular passage through the near-impenetrable jungles of the Darien Gap between North and South America and who first navigated 2,700 miles of the Zaire River, combating exhaustion, stress, health crises, crocodiles, broken limbs and angry rifle-toting tribesmen along the way.

Full of wit, thrills and excitement, Something Lost Behind The Ranges takes the reader on a magical mystery tour through a world of trail-blazing adventure and discovery, conjuring up a vision of a true-life Boys’ Own hero.

Available from John Blashford-Snell, Expedition Base, Motcombe, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 9PB
Tel: 01747 854456
Email: jbs@ses-explore.org

Price: £12.50 plus £3.50 p&p

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