Proclaimed "the World's most travelled motorist", AE Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey through Africa in a series of dilapidated motorcars.
Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived. Proclaimed "the World's most travelled motorist", A E Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars. -- Victoria Twead
