Just read 'The Places In between' by Rory Stewart (yes, the politician). About him walking solo across Afghanistan in winter, in the early 2000nds. Balls of steel and very interesting.
Just read 'The Places In between' by Rory Stewart (yes, the politician). About him walking solo across Afghanistan in winter, in the early 2000nds. Balls of steel and very interesting.
I read that a while ago. Really good book.
....it's all downhill from here.
‘Birdwatching walks in Bowland’ by David Hindle & John Wilson
Bird watching walks in the Yorkshire Dales - Brendan Threlfall
Mmmh. I have read it. I always did have you marked as a Guardian reader.Originally Posted by millipede
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"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
Simon: the genius in my basement, by Alexander Masters. Not really a biography; more like watching a painter doing a portrait, but doing a bit of the face, then a bit of a hand, then some background, then more of the face, . . . .
Hilarious in parts, especially since the subject has rather extreme versions of a few of my own character traits (but fortunately I am not a genius); and also I did have the occasional email correspondence with him before his death earlier this year.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Brave New World
Just started re-reading the The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and it seems Ironic that Arthur Dents house Was demolished on a THURSDAY to make way for for a Hyperspace bypass and that was only the Start, so what Is Thursday the 12th Dec the precursor of for us then, i wonder.
Still a great read and the way it depicts the world and it`s inhabitants seems even more accurate now than it did 20+ years ago when I first read the book
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The older I get the Faster I was
James Acaster "Perfect Sound Whatever".Just started re-reading the The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and it seems Ironic that Arthur Dents house Was demolished on a THURSDAY to make way for for a Hyperspace bypass and that was only the Start, so what Is Thursday the 12th Dec the precursor of for us then, i wonder.
Still a great read and the way it depicts the world and it`s inhabitants seems even more accurate now than it did 20+ years ago when I first read the book
Interesting read - and yes, very brave.
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