Wide Horizons: Tales of a Non-Traveller in Tanzania »

Wide Horizons charts the author's radical change from West-Country teacher and fearful flyer to East African adventurer.

It is an amusing, warts-and-all account of the two years he spent living and working in Tanzania with his partner, Cathy.

It includes accounts of visits to 'A-list' destinations such as Zanzibar and Kilimanjaro, as well as safaris to remote national parks. Recurrent themes of poverty and illness ensure that Tanzania is not glamorised though.

Wide Horizons also examines the increasing impact of Islam on local culture and how Tanzania has been shaped by the post independence influence of Julius Nyerere, who died during the author's stay.

Ultimately, Wide Horizons is about facing your fears and the extraordinary things life has to offer as a consequence.