The revolver spun round and round on the table between us, clattering to a halt to point straight at me. 'Ah yes,' drawled the soldier with a triuphant sneer, 'maybe now we shoot you.' It wasn't exactly the kind of warm reception Sue Williams had envisaged when set out to travel the world. But then, as she soon discovered on a number of different exepeditions things rarely do turn out quite how you expect. In fact, if she'd known she would wake up naked inside a sleeping bag, with all her belongings vanished, on a patch of wasteland in Central African Republic; get lost on a dark mountain top in Malawi; be stalked by a wife-hungry politician in Mexico; hitch 1000 kilometres in the wrong direction in Argentina; and discover, too late, she'd just eaten dog stew in China, she would have never left home in the first place. Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer is the hilarious, terriyfing and, most of all, inspiring account of Sue's travels across the globe over twenty years. it isn't about destinations or pleasant arrivals, but journeys and the battle to get there, fuelled by curiousity, faith in humanity, naviety and even extraordinary ineptitude - the tales of the true traveller.