Stumbling Over Eden

* * * As featured at Wigtown Book Festival and Ripon Theatre Festival * * *

"A boy's own - and girls! - adventure of a trek, from the High Atlas mountains, across the Anti Atlas, then following the exotic river Draa into the Sahara. You will fall into a world and people as fascinating and friendly as any fairy tale."

- Mike McHugo OBE

Stumbling Over Eden starts with an idea born on the top of Mt Toubkal the highest peak in North Africa - to walk from the roof of the High Atlas Mountains to the sands of the Sahara Desert. What results is a fantastical tale involving a Krupp cannon, arrest, being tailed by the secret service, the lairs of old warlords, a spirit dog, a lost tribe of dwarfs and an amorous camel. But more than that, it is a story of resilience, companionship, independence, the strange weave of history and the true meaning of adventure.

Steve Bonham is an award-winning psychologist, a musician, an adventurer and a vagabond philosopher. He is the author of A Little Nostalgia for Freedom, A Beautiful Broken Dream and How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World.

Prologue

Map

Chapter 1: On Top of the World

Chapter 2: The Road to Telouet

Chapter 3: Cake or Death?

Chapter 4: The Strangeness of the Strange

Chapter 5: Freedom's Another Word

Chapter 6: Arrested!

Chapter 7: The Krupp Cannon

Chapter 8: Walking on the Moon

Chapter 9: The Badlands

Chapter 10: Stumbling Over Eden

Chapter 11: There May Be Dwarfs

Chapter 12: Spies and Gorillas

Chapter 13: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Chapter 14: The End of The Road

Chapter 15: Telouet

Roll of Honour