Waypoints

A story of tenacity, told with humility, in a West Africa experienced deeply at the pace of a walk. I loved this book - its thoughtfulness, turn of phrase and lightness of touch as the author escapes one life to rediscover another. – Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Martineau segues effortlessly from practical desert challenges to striking encounters… [he] finds trust in the road and learns to trust his unrest… there is a sense that the waypoints he encounters inspire a new, and encouraging, optimism. – Caroline Eden * Times Literary Supplement *
[Martineau] is fine and thoughtful company for the journey, sensitive to the fraught history of Europeans who have used Africa and Africans as a backdrop for their exploits * Washington Post *
Waypoints wonderfully explores how walking animates resilience in times of stress, anxiety and worry, illustrating, through personal experience, how the journey is often our collective human goal. – Shane O’Mara, author of ‘In Praise of Walking’
An astonishing dream-like journey… Martineau has written a deeply affecting book which sears itself on the memory like the sun of the western Sahel. – Philip Marsden, author of ‘Rising Ground’, ‘The Spirit-Wrestlers’ and ‘The Crossing Place’
A wonderful book. – Giles Foden * i *
An epic journey and a book worthy of it. A thrilling and poignant meditation on the elusive reasons for getting out of bed in the morning; a dazzling kaleidoscope of colour, sensation, and time. An important new voice has arrived. – Charles Foster, author of ‘Being a Beast’
Terrific… a travel-writing gem. – Tim Butcher, author of Blood River

Robert Martineau is co-founder of TRIBE, a nutrition company, and TRIBE Freedom Foundation, a charity fighting human trafficking. Waypoints is his first book. He lives in London.

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