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A man and a pram / Mark Cundy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cundy, Mark, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cundy, Mark, 1966---Travel.
- Cundy, Mark.
- Fund raising.
- Walking--Anecdotes.
- Walking.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 218 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Clacton on Sea : Apex Publishing, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- People travel from London to New York every day - nothing unusual about that, but if your journey took you 14 months, you might rightly wish to seek compensation from the airline! However, Mark Cundy's journey was different; his was a walking odyssey of immense proportions, covering 5,500 miles between October 2004 and December 2005 across three continents, in aid of Cancer Research UK and its overseas equivalents.Facing a lonely, often gruelling trek, Mark encountered many setbacks and obstacles en route: limited resources, accommodation problems, language barriers, extremes of climate, red tape, cultural differences and health issues, and met plenty of 'angels' and a few 'devils' as his journey pressed on through Europe, across Russia and on to Australia and finally the USA. There were many times he stopped to wonder, "What am I doing?" But in true Forrest Gump style, he just kept on walking. This is an extraordinary story, told with immense humour, of true grit and determinat...
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A Man &
- A Pram
- Breaking Out
- Baby Boomer
- A Man with a Plan
- Week One
- Europe!
- Dutch &
- Deutsch
- All Roads (Eventually) Lead to Berlin
- Go East Young Man!
- Chilled Out
- Happy New Year?
- Back on the Road
- Into The Baltics
- Latvia
- Russia!
- Getting to Know You
- Moscow in the Spring
- Trains &
- Planes
- G'Day All!
- Fame at Last
- Wet Wet Wet
- Harbouring Lights
- Good Morning America
- The Heat is On
- Snow Birds and Red Rock
- Sweating It Out
- Galluping Through
- Santa Claws
- On the Way to Amarillo
- Oklahoma!
- The Longest Day
- End of the West
- Corns and Beans
- Heading for the Fall
- Birth of a Nation
- East Side Story
- Start Spreading the News ...
- Back Home
- Middle England
- The Last Day
- Feet Up
- Also Available.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613413574
- 9781283413572
- 1283413574
- 9781908382139
- 1908382139
- OCLC:
- 746745549
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