My Mercedes is Not for Sale : From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara

An Amsterdam-based journalist describes his rollicking adventures and misadventures as he journeys through Africa in the hopes of selling his dilapidated, used car in the Third World; chronicles his odyssey from Holland into some of Africa's most remote areas; and details his encounters with minefields, bandits, colorful desert guides, and a coup along the way. Original. 25,000 first printing.