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This is the story of their trip, of the riotous people, animals and events that helpfully or unhelpfully got in the way, an hilarious, engaging and genuinely witty account of oddball, upper clas Englishmen and a diminutive Irish girl descending into the scorching, steaming and smoking remains of former Empire,with only the World Cup as their beacon.
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Book Description
In October 1994, Red Walsh from the west coast of Ireland, British cavalry officer George Wilson-Fitzgerald, photographer Emma Tindal and author and journalist Charles Jacoby set off from London to drive to the Rugby World Cup in Africa. It was a journey taking seven months over 16,000 miles, and taking them through swamps and deserts. This is the story of their trip, of the helpful and unhelpful people, animals and events that they encountered. It is an account of oddball, upper-class Englishmen and a diminutive Irish girl descending into the scorching remains of the former Empire, with only the World Cup as their beacon.
Book Dimension:
length: (cm)19.6 width:(cm)10.7
目录:
Part I
1 The Arrival
2 Cheese and Honey
3 High Atlas Interlude
4 Heat and Dust
5 Nancy
6 The Elephants
7 Advent
8 Christmas
9 Crime and Passion
10 Ndu to Aru
11 The Heathens
12 Team Talk
Part II
13 The Horrible Tom
14 A Month in the Country
15 A Night on the Town
16 The Kenya Safari Rally
17 Langers' Ghost
18 The Vultures
19 The Crunchies
20 David
21 Postscript
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
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