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by Duncan Fallowell (Author) "It's black outside, as black and solid as coal, but inside all is white and clean, although the glass of white wine I had with..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 279 pages
  • Publisher: Profile Books; First Edition edition (21 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846680697
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846680694
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 218,753 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'Mordant, energetic and outrageous.' Camille Paglia 'Glitzy, louche and funny...with a wild vivid energy tapping the Zeitgeist' - Cathy Porter, Independent on Sunday, writing about Duncan Fallowell's book One Hot Summer in St Petersburg."


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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I felt thrilled reading this unusual travel book...., 17 May 2008
By Maganuco Natale (Italy) - See all my reviews
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Whatever idea you have about a travel book, be ready to change it after you start reading this unusual travel book.
By Mr. Fallowel ability to observe interesting details about people and places in a very witty way, New Zeland becames a place where condradictory aspects of our western culture becames very vivid.
I really think Mr. Fallowell has the courage to expose his feeling in telling you everything about it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Going as far as you like, 13 April 2008
Readers who have enjoyed his books on St Petersburg and Sicily will know that
Duncan Fallowell's travel writing is in a class of its own.His trip to New
Zealand in search of memories of the Old Vic Tour of 1948 led by the Oliviers
was certain to surprise the natives and any readers who expected a smooth
travelogue in the style of Newby or Leigh Fermor. What you get is a double
journey. The first is by plane,bus,car and foot through the towns, cities and
mountains of New Zealand. Occasionally he stumbles into Paradise but all too
often he finds a landscape ravaged by greedy developers and city planners
indifferent to the qualities of the environments they have destroyed.
The second, parallel journey is through the extraordinary contents of Fallowell's mind as he jump-cuts from food to sex, religion to history,
bars to backrooms, and dialogue to description.
As any traveller is entitled to do, he jabs occasionally at the soft and
sensitive parts of New Zealands self-image. Maybe this is why the book
has ruffled national feathers. But since Fallowell is so bracingly
honest about his own desires and behaviour readers should not expect
him to be any less so in his reactions to their country.

Highly recommended; but I wish the publishers could have given us a map.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars All about Duncan, 10 May 2008
By D. Hyde (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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If you want to learn more about New Zealand do not get this book. The travel writing is focussed on the author - his interests (the Oliviers, Rose Wine, etc), moods, philosophies, sex life - not on the country he was visiting. I felt cheated.
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