Thirty Thousand Miles in Africa Author: Bi Shumin Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

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★A representative work of travel essays by the famous writer Bi Shumin, based on her personal experience and field investigation of the customs and people of Africa. She looks at this ancient land with compassionate humanistic feelings and observes the true meaning of life.

★In the place where human beings were first born, face poverty and struggle, lions and wilderness, primitive and modern, pain and happiness.

★14 days, 5 countries, 5,530 kilometers, departing every two years. "The Pride of Africa", one of the most luxurious commercial steam locomotives in the world, serves the world's tycoons, business elites, and political leaders. It moves slowly on this ancient land in full dress. This is an epic journey.

★Inside the window is the ultimate Victorian elegance; outside the window is the wilderness, life, hunger, and reality. A car window separates poverty and luxury, ignorance and civilization.

★2024 fully revised edition, full-color printing, new cover, fully upgraded visual effects and reading comfort. More than 140 pictures reproduce the natural scenery, humanities and history of Africa, with extra-large pull-out pages included.

After traveling all over Africa and experiencing the local conditions and customs of Africa, Bi Shumin poured out all her observations, thoughts and feelings in her writing. Following the slow and elegant pace of the steam train, she passed through the prison where Mandela was imprisoned, the hunting trips where lions danced on the grasslands, the remains of the slave auction market, and the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, which was aided by China but is gradually declining. Bi Shumin personally experienced life in Soweto, the world's largest slum, and also went into an African middle-class family to have dinner with the hostess; she tasted the mellow aroma of Ethiopian coffee and gradually got used to the wonderful taste of the special food. She tells the cultural history of Africa, and writes about the most unique Africa with her own eyes as the criterion.