Mucking Around – Five Continents over Fifty Years –

“Naomi Mitchison, an inveterate and an intrepid traveller, recounts her many journeys, from the 1920s when she herself was in her twenties and made her first forays into Europe and ‘all round the Med’, into the 1980s, when she still pays an annual visit to her adopted African country of Botswana, often arriving there via the America or the Antipodes. Based on letters written to her family at home, or on detailed diaries, the memoirs are a record of an adventurous half-century, for the author has a way of getting into difficult spots and of asking difficult and often awkward questions wherever she has travelled. …”