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"Jerry is something of a modern-day Indiana Jones. Yet he has the ability
to take the reader along on this exciting motorcycle trip across Africa with him."

- A Des Moines, IA reader

Most of these images are located within the pages of the book. Personally dedicated autographed copies are available right now!
Every page of this book is about an adventure, but the most amazing part - is that it is all true. The same Author who wrote this book
is the same man who lived through his diagonal trek across Africa: Jerry Smith!
To order a dedicated and signed copy directly from the author, see below...

Into the Heart of Africa is a fascinating tale of an incredible motorcycle journey across Africa. Jerry Smith shares with the reader such events as Christmas in Cameroon and a meal of zebra liver and steak in the Republic of Central Africa, where Russian military presence was very real.
Jerry encounters it all in Africa-from spear toting warriors that could have slipped silently from the bush 100 years ago, to tanks and solders with modern weapons. Bandits and smugglers, colorful Arabs and near naked Pygmies…it is all in, “The Heart of Africa.”
An interesting mix of people appears in the book. These include an English speaking Norwegegian Baptist Missionary, austere territorial chiefs in flowing robes to modern well drillers from Texas and of course the Africans who live in many villages along the way.
Jerry’s good humor and adventurous sprit are evident in his crisp writing and descriptions, even when jabbed with a bayonet, mooned by a baboon and faced with an aggressive native ready to catapult a spear through him.
In the opening chapter, the reader will be riding with Jerry as he races for his life to escape from thieves. For the rest of the story...read the book. The trek crosses a variety of land including narrow valleys, the endless Sahara, rocky trails where nothing leaves a track, to the dense jungle trails.
In addition to being an adventure story, the book will leave you with a better understanding of Africa and its people. Jerry describes the villages and inhabitants he and his team encounter along the way. War and hardship of living In Africa is noted. However, he exhibits an understanding and sympathy for these people. His wonder and enjoyment visiting a Pygmy village was evident. He also writes of the freedom and excitement of riding alone on age old trails near Lake Victoria in the northern Serengeti.
Jerry is something of a modern-day Indiana Jones. Yet he has the ability to take the reader along on this exciting motorcycle trip.
- A Des Moines, IA reader

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Pg. 2 - Jerry Smith's Motorcycle Pictures

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapters
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2
3
4
5
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7
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9
10
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Chapter Titles
Ghetto of Thieves
Smuggler
Cold in the High Plateaus
The Arab - Friend or Foe
The Valley of the Atom Bombs
Duct Tape
A Geometric Solution
Lost in the Southern Sahara
One Thousand Miles through the Sahel
Harbor from the Storm
A Thank-You to America
A Day for a Parade
A Russian Military Circus
On Foot in the Congo Jungle
The Chicken Two-Step
Volcanic Toilet Bowl
Firsthand Account of Tribal Massacre
We Seanmen of the Ubangi
The Trial - Facing Jungle Justice
The Night of the Screaming Jungle
Corruption in Zaire
Facing the Sharp End of a Spear
Negotiating the Bamboo Jungle
El Toro and the Viking
The Money Changer
Curtains of Many Colors
Human Scalp
Confrontation at the City Well
The Strangest of Birds
The Ant War
Nia Nia
Okapi, Giraffe from the Past
Illegal Ivory and the Poacher
Rodeo in the Zairean Jungle
Transversing the Mountains of Eastern Zaire
Goma, an Ol’ Frontier Town
Rwanda, Ozarks of Africa
Bayonets and Chambered Rounds
Into the Land of the Masai
Never Run from a Mad Elephant
Scrimmage above the Coral Reef
My Last Hurrah
African Trekkers

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