Be Free: Mountains, Mishaps, and Miracles in Africa

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KEY SELLING POINTS Angela deJong has travelled solo to every country in Africa that has mountains higher than 3000 metres, and she has summited all of them over a ten-year period. Her travel essays are instructive, sometimes humorous, always personal, and highly reflective. Angela offers the fresh voice of a female solo adventurer in the ever-growing travel writing genre. Includes a selection of colour photos from each of Angela's destinations. The essays focus on the author's adventures in the following Africa countries: Cameroon Congo Ethiopia Jordan Kenya Madagascar Malawi Morocco Rwanda Tanzania Uganda Zanzibar MARKETING & PROMO: National, regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts and review coverage Social media campaigns, blogger outreach, digital collateral for online use Outreach to travel and tourism organizations Excerpts available Electronic ARCs

Angela deJong is a certified personal trainer, author of Reality Fitness, and owner of Acacia Fitness. She graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in kinesiology, having majored in sport performance and exercise therapy. She has been training clients since 2001, working with hundreds of people ranging from armchair sports aficionados to national and international high-performance athletes. Angela has travelled solo to every country in Africa that has mountains higher than 3000 metres, and she has summited all of them over the past ten years. She is also the co-author of Polepole: A Training Guide for Kilimanjaro and Other Long-Distance Mountain Treks. Angela lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Praise for Be Free: "Be Free delivers on its promise, taking us through Africa with mountaineer author Angela deJong for a remarkable decade of summits, treks and adventure. Each well-crafted, personal story leaves me inspired, connected, amused, or simply shaking my head in wonder, and admiration." -Bill Arnott, bestselling author of Gone Viking: A Travel Saga and Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries "Be Free is a riveting collection of short stories from places most of us will never see. Angela deJong weaves together many tales from her travels in Africa with honesty and fallibility, offering a must read for any armchair adventurer or world traveller." -Heather Anderson, author of Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail