Justin Fox Talks Transient Connections and Crossing Borders in The Marginal Safari

Justin Fox spoke to Bruce Dennill about his book, The Marginal Safari: Scouting The Edge of South Africa, which details his very long trip exploring the fringes of South Africa. Fox says he took the journey at a bad time in his life, when his father was diagnosed with cancer, and thus the tone of the book changed as his journey became not just a trip around the Fatherland, but his “Father’s land”, visiting places he had been with his father. Fox says that his travelling lifestyle has made it difficult to form lasting relationships with people, as most connections are “transient”, though “intense” while they last:

In his latest book, The Marginal Safari: Scouting The Edge Of South Africa, travel write Justin Fox literally takes his readers on a guilt trip.

His father, the architect Revel Fox, had been diagnosed with cancer, but lengthy preparations and scheduling problems meant the trip had to be done then or never.

“Those months became free for me to do a long trip, but at a bad time, with my dad coming towards the end of his life,” Fox admits.

• Complete interview: The Citizen

Book details

• The Marginal Safari: Scouting the edge of South Africa by Justin Fox
  EAN: 9781415200582
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