[11] Her travels in China and Tibet took her to Kashgar, Karakol on Lake Issyk Kul, Xinjiang, the lamasery of Taer'si, Chengdu and Shilin.
Looking beyond elephant's trunk, crocodile's tail, and hump of rhinoceros, she said in an interview "When one's eaten maggots three or four times one isn't squeamish, and if someone brings you a bowlful that they've spent the day gathering it would be impolite to go 'urgh!'...
"[12] Dennis Hackett, writing a television review in The Times in October 1984, said – To call Christina Dodwell intrepid would surely sell her short: intrepidity can only be the outward sign of the inward compulsion that makes her walk among savage-looking peoples in the wilder parts of the earth with the aplomb of a woman who has just entered her giant marrow at the local garden show and knows she cannot be beaten.
Though there was much to command attention in BBC2's River Journeys series last night she was undoubtedly the star, with soft voice and swinging walk, under a hat that might have been bequeathed her by John Wayne, tall, confident, all-conquering.
[11] Together with Delia Akeley, Mary Kingsley, Florence Baker, and Alexine Tinne, she was one of the five subjects of a book by Margo McLoone published that year, Women explorers in Africa (1997).
[1][10] In 1995 she established a charity called the Dodwell Trust, to help Madagascar's people, chiefly in the areas of education, family health, and sustainable development.
[10] Her three television films for the BBC are River Journey – Waghi (1984, BAFTA award), Black Pearls of Polynesia (1991) and African Footsteps – Madagascar (1996).
[1] In 1994, she was reported to own a flat in London and a small farm in Oxfordshire, but said that her ideal home was a timber house without electricity in the Valley of Geysers, Kamchatka, belonging to a bear-tracker she had met there in 1992.