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The Size of the World: Once around without Leaving the Ground (Paperback)

by Jeff Greenwald (Author)
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  • Paperback: 421 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.; 1st Ballantine Books Ed edition (Mar 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 034540551X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345405517
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,218,214 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A respected travel writer, who at the age of forty traveled around the world without ever flying, recounts his experiences as he walked, bused, trained, and sailed through a twenty-five-thousand-mile, nine-month trip.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent armchair travelling, 1 Oct 1999
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As Greenwald reminds us in "The Size of The World": The purpose of travel is to eventually return to the place that you started at, and see it through fresh eyes. With this goal in mind the author sets out on an epic circumnavigation of the world via land travel only. This he accomplishes depite often having to take the long way round. His experiences, as with any travel book of this nature, make for escapist and highly enjoyable reading. I frequently found myself wondering if I could cope with some of the situations he's presented with throughout his adventure. And a world tour, however you accomplish it, is always going to be a serious adventure. The book begins with the lengthy preparations for his journey, which include finding a suitable travelling companion, in the end someone so self consumed with finding her self that I was eventually glad the author continued the journey alone. The book becomes somewhat focused on the author's experiences, past and present, in Nepal, a region that Greenwald, and his travelling companion, are strongly drawn to. I felt that other equally challenging regions of the world were too briefly dealt with or ignored entirely. But then there is only so much that you can relay in a single book. All in all however an excellently crafted travelogue. Try Tim Cahill for stories of adventure travel in equally remote areas coupled with a good dose of humour.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Travel Narrative Ever Written!, 23 Dec 1998
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After Reading Jeff Greenwald's The Size Of the World I was exhausted! I felt as if I had personally travelled with him to all of the exciting places he had ventured to...his honesty of what it is really like as a foreign traveler was very refreshing. Too many writers try to mystify a place, when in actuality it is often a hard road to travel in foreign territory. Jeff Greenwald tells it like it really is, without destroying the unique beauty of a place or its people. This book made me laugh so hard, made me cry, and made me a little homesick -For anyone who has been attacked by the travel-bug, or anyone seriously considering doing any extensive travel overseas, or anyone wanting to try traveling "off the beaten path"...this is it! Throw away your Lonely Planet Guide and take jeff along with you!- this is the book to cure your itch! A definite keeper!
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