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Travel Light, Move Fast
- Narrated by: Alexandra Fuller
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
From best-selling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost. You wouldn't want me taking all this wisdom with me to the grave." Then he lit his pipe, and stroked his dog Harry's head. Harry put his paw on his lap and they sat there the two of them, one man and his dog, keepers to the secret of life. "Well?" she asked. "Nothing comes to mind quite honestly, Bobo", he said, with some surprise. "Now that I think about it, maybe there isn't a secret to life. What do you think, Harry?" Harry gave Dad a look of utter agreement. He was a very superior dog. "Well, there you have it", Dad said.
After her father's sudden death, Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather his loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. So begins Travel Light, Move Fast, the unforgettable story of Tim Fuller, a self-exiled British black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. A man who preferred chaos to predictability, to revel in promise rather than wallow in regret, and was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost, he taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen altogether, all at once - or not at all. Now in the wake of his death, Fuller internalizes his lessons with clear eyes, and celebrates a man who swallowed life whole.
A master of time and memory, Fuller moves seamlessly between the days and months following her father's death as she and her mother return to his farm with his ashes and contend with his overwhelming absence, and her childhood spent running after him in southern and central Africa. Writing with reverent irreverence of the rollicking grand misadventures of her mother and father, bursting with pandemonium and tragedy, Fuller takes their insatiable appetite for life to heart. Here, in Fuller's Africa, is a story of joy, resilience, and vitality, from one of our finest writers.
Critic reviews
"Listeners will feel as if they're having an intimate chat with acclaimed memoirist Alexandra Fuller.... Fuller smoothly modulates the tone and pitch of her soft, lilting voice to evoke the spirit and attitude of every person she includes in her accounts." (AudioFile Magazine)
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- juliana
- 28-07-24
Brilliant ;heartbreaking .
Every book written by Alexandra that I’ve read has been so intense and moving. Her writing is clever , saying somethings so terrible in the shortest sentences. Her observation is razor sharp . The fact it’s her real life is devastating. I can feel country she’s writing about without every being there . She is a brilliant story teller .
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- Augusto
- 18-10-19
Very good book, gripping story
Excellent narration, great story, very funny, fascinating insight into settler life in Africa. Great to hear the author herself narrating it.
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- Susse Thrane
- 13-06-22
Excellent all together
Always worth a listen to. Multi facetted with raw emotions around the loss of a father. But wait for it.
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- Kariesa
- 24-03-23
I didn’t want it to end!
What an incredible book, love it from beginning to end. Wonderful narration by the author, anyone else reading it would have changed the whole effect of the book. Her writing is so beautifully evocative and raw. her family spring to life - and I laughed and cried throughout.
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