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Originally Posted by kokiri
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart, opium snooker and long shot candidate for UK prime minister. I bought this ages ago without knowing anything about the author and forgot about it, and when I read about Stewart in the current campaign for Tory leadership it rung a bell so I dug out the book.
So far, so good quality travel lit
Funny thing, this book and his previous book The Marches are a part of my current library haul. I read a piece about him in the NYTimes 2 weeks ago and tracked those 2 down. Seems like quite a guy, real breath of fresh air. Likes to walk it seems. Looking forward to those. Right now I'm working on the new biography of Nelson Algren which is pretty good,
Never a Lovely So Real by Colin Asher.