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jenn_stark's review
5.0
This book was a lovely surprise find in the Birmingham library while we were living in the UK, and it was such an inspiring read, especially at a time in my life when I was feeling rather lost and had no money myself, helped get me through :)
drakeula_73's review
2.0
This started out as a good read but soon became a dull and repetative story of one man (and his dog) and their walk from Plymouth to Edinburgh in the summer of 1998. The idea was to do said journey with no money at all. The first thing that annoyed me was the author's use of actually getting people to give him a lift in their car! I mean if you are going to "walk" between two towns, then bloody walk, don't keep cadging lifts everywhere, it kind of defeats the object. There seemed a lot of "poor me" syndrome in this book as well and I got tired of reading of his poor feet lack of decent food etc. He also is not very complimentary to some of the people who help him with food and shelter and comes accross as rather ungrateful. There are a lot of really good books on travelling out there but this is not and never will be one of them.
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