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Synopsis
When Duncan Fallowell was left some money by a friend he decided to put into practice a long held idea - to travel as far as possible from home so that he need never travel again and could relax. For him this meant travelling to New Zealand, where another fantasy soon asserted itself - 'to find the place of perfect exile'. Fallowell's curiosity leads him onto the strangest paths and he found himself in pursuit of unknown painters and lost buildings and sex underground, of Karl Popper and a creature with the third eye and rose wine, of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier who'd toured the country in the year of Fallowell's birth, of suicidal writers and nuns and elusive answers to impossible questions. The faraway paradise gradually turns into a glittering stranger on the Pacific rim, filled with the uncertainties of our times - but also a wonderful place to breathe. The result is a moving encounter with the past, an anxious gaze into the future, but most of all a vivid voyage through the contemporary world, by turns profound, comical and erotic.
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the best possible kind of travel writing - funny, very personal, informative, very varied, omnivorous (Edmund White)
a colourful, hedonistic and oddly moving journey...I loved it. (Sunday Telegraph)
Funny, perceptive and disconcertingly honest ... but also an eloquent, almost painterly evocation of a country he came to love (Mail on Sunday)
[E]clectic and unusual travel book....his trip around 'God's own country' is documented with genuine skill.' (N/A Sunday Business Post 2009-08-16)
[A] book written with the benefit of the clarity of the Antipodean light, and is refreshing in its coherence and precision. (Laurence Mackin Irish Times 2009-08-15)
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'Opinionated, unpredictable and quite fearless, Fallowell has penned a travel classic.' Independent
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- PublisherProfile Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1846683122
- ISBN 13 9781846683121
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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