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The Wrong Way Home

By Peter Moore

The Wrong Way Home

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When Peter Moore announced he was going to travel from London to his home in Sydney without boarding an aeroplane he was met with a resounding Why? The answer was perversity and a severe case of hippie envy - hippies had the best music they had the best drugs they had the best sex. But most of all they had the best trips. Over the eight months (and twenty-five countries) that followed Moore retraced the steps of many who had made the overland journey from London to the East circa 1967 with the knowledge that his funds were painfully inadequate and the chances of actually making it through places like the Balkans Iran and China were in a word slim. THE WRONG WAY HOME is the hilarious account of this life-enhancing Grand Tour by means of bone-rattling bus rides furnace-like trains and exorbitantly-priced taxis. Along the way Moore took in the world's most expensive disco in Albania; the bombed out villages and military checkpoints of Croatia; the opium fields of Laos; student riots in Jakarta and an all-night beach rave on a small island in southern Thailand. He describes the places - and the people he encountered there - with a mixture of awe irreverence and self-deprecation. Striking a chord with all those travellers young and old who have stood where Moore stood THE WRONG WAY HOME entertains and alarms those of us who love to read about off-the-beaten-track travel adventures but would never be fool enough to pack our rucksacks and go.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
402
Release Date:
2005-04-22
Publication Date:
2005-04-22
Publisher:
Bantam
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0553817000
ISBN13:
9780553817003
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
470 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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