Robert Martineau is co-founder of TRIBE, a nutrition company, and TRIBE Freedom Foundation, a charity fighting human trafficking. Waypoints is his first book. He lives in London.
A story of tenacity, told with humility, in a West Africa
experienced deeply at the pace of a walk. I loved this book - its
thoughtfulness, turn of phrase and lightness of touch as the author
escapes one life to rediscover another.
*Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia*
Martineau segues effortlessly from practical desert challenges to
striking encounters... [he] finds trust in the road and learns to
trust his unrest... there is a sense that the waypoints he
encounters inspire a new, and encouraging, optimism.
*Times Literary Supplement*
[Martineau] is fine and thoughtful company for the journey,
sensitive to the fraught history of Europeans who have used Africa
and Africans as a backdrop for their exploits
*Washington Post*
Waypoints wonderfully explores how walking animates resilience in
times of stress, anxiety and worry, illustrating, through personal
experience, how the journey is often our collective human goal.
*Shane O'Mara, author of 'In Praise of Walking'*
An astonishing dream-like journey... Martineau has written a deeply
affecting book which sears itself on the memory like the sun of the
western Sahel.
*Philip Marsden, author of 'Rising Ground', 'The Spirit-Wrestlers'
and 'The Crossing Place'*
A wonderful book.
*i*
An epic journey and a book worthy of it. A thrilling and poignant
meditation on the elusive reasons for getting out of bed in the
morning; a dazzling kaleidoscope of colour, sensation, and time. An
important new voice has arrived.
*Charles Foster, author of 'Being a Beast'*
Terrific... a travel-writing gem.
*Tim Butcher, author of Blood River*
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