- Paperback: 154 pages
- Publisher: MLCstudio; 1st edition (16 May 2009)
- ISBN-10: 0956196608
- ISBN-13: 978-0956196606
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,131,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This, the first edition of `Rising/Falling...' is now permanently out of print. However a revised edition with several corrections and refinements is currently nearing completion. MLCstudio aims to make the revised work available on Amazon and elsewhere by the end of April 2010. The revised edition will share the same name but will have the following ISBN: 978-0-9561966-13. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. You can register your interest by emailing contact@MLCstudio.co.uk to receive an alert when the book becomes available. Many thanks, Craig Chamberlain.
The work narrates the experiences of two students, Martyn Johnson and the author Craig Chamberlain as they prepare for and participate in the sensational, transcontinental, Mongol Rally in 2007. In which they drive a twenty year old Citroën 2CV from London to Ulanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Descriptions of politics and geography are stitched together by a string of barely believable events and acts of generosity that ensure the boys are not only able to survive but to complete the challenge in style.
After many trials and amazing encounters they make it the finish line and in time for the finale party where they catch up with all of their friends from the rally. A few days later, and after further hurdles, the car finally arrives and is auctioned for just £8.74, from which the price of this book is set. The journey and experiences leave the friends exhausted, exhilarated but wiser and a little more aware of how big a Citroen 2CV really is.
From the Author
This is my first book. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed living and writing it. After nearly two years, writing, improving and illustrating it it is finally finished.
My partner on the journey, Martyn Johnson(a.k.a. Jonno), and I took part in the 2007 Mongol Rally while still students at Sheffield University. He lived across the road from me and I remember one night in particularwhen came to visit my rather insane household. Within minutes he was half naked and covered in paint, eating a bowl of cornflakes as Robin Leonard, my house mate, and I pointed cameras and lights in his face. Jonno had a project due in the next day, `Deconstructing a short reel of film'. He had been given a metre long strip of film of a jazz musician playing a piano. We spontaneously decided on a story, assembled lights, fabricated props and shot a stopanimation in the space of an hour.
2007 was a strange year. There was always some form of mad activity in progress. Call on any given night and you were just as likely to see Jonno attacked and possessed by a roll of film and turned into a jazz pianist as you were to be crushed by a television, flung in disgust down the stairs or witness novel items of furniture being hacked together at three o'clock in the morning to the full sounds of Bach. Of course, when Jonno offered me a place on The Mongol Rally, I didn't think twice.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A disappointing attempt,
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This review is from: Rising / Falling - Always Hoping: A Journey to a Part of Asia (Paperback)
Having made the journey myself I give the author credit for taking on the difficult challenge of translating his epic, continent-spanning experience into book form, but I'd advise him to work with an agent and publisher for his next attempt. A good editor would be able to point out which sections were good, which could be cut down and which needed something more to make them workable, and a good proofreader would have weeded out the grammatical errors that turn up in any manuscript that hasn't been through the harsh and unforgiving editorial process.
I'll look forward to future efforts to see if Chamberlain can learn to perfect his craft.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant!,
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This review is from: Rising / Falling - Always Hoping: A Journey to a Part of Asia (Paperback)
I got this book yesterday morning and had read it by lunch... I was hooked! A great read and a real inspiration, I would recommend it to everyone!
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining and insightful,
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This review is from: Rising / Falling - Always Hoping: A Journey to a Part of Asia (Paperback)
A thoroughly enjoyable diary of an adventure by a young author. The tale is an entertaining string of catastrophes, but with many considered insights about regions of the world I previously knew nothing of.
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