The Tortured Traveller

By Sheldon Herman

Over sixty days and with his two trusty, bright orange suitcases—dubbed Pylon One and Pylon Two—in tow, Sheldon explores the highlights of Southern Africa from Cape Town to Nairobi, Kenya, by way of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. 

But instead of the luxury safari accommodation he was promised, he becomes intimately acquainted with Ursula, an ugly tent he has to set up himself. What he thought was going to be a tour bus with comfortable, reclining seats, and power outlets turns out to leak when it rains … which is often.

The Tortured Traveller: How I Survived the Worst … Vacation … Ever is the hilarious account of a woefully unprepared tourist trying to come to terms with everything from the beauty and cruelty of Botswana wildlife to the creature comforts of the Hyatt Zanzibar, where he experiences the kind of bizarre massage you won’t usually read about in East Africa travel books. In between, there’s a bit of romance, a tragedy, and lots of action.