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by Charles Jacoby (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; New Ed edition (2 Jun 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671854550
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671854553
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 516,937 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis
In October 1994, Red Walsh from the west coast of Ireland, British cavalry officer George Wilson-Fitzgerald, photographer Emma Tindal and author and journalist Charles Jacoby set off from London to drive to the Rugby World Cup in Africa. It was a journey taking seven months over 16,000 miles, and taking them through swamps and deserts. This is the story of their trip, of the helpful and unhelpful people, animals and events that they encountered. It is an account of oddball, upper-class Englishmen and a diminutive Irish girl descending into the scorching remains of the former Empire, with only the World Cup as their beacon.

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It's a travel book, a rugby book, an Africa book, a comedy, a tragedy and not a bad Land Rover maintenance book. Country Life - dear Country Life - said: "Few possess the descriptive powers and wit of Charles Jacoby".

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Laziest travel book ever written?, 4 Oct 2003
By Martin Quartermaine (Burlington VT, USA) - See all my reviews
It starts off exuberantly enough, a few people with diverse backgrounds, Irish and English, rugby fans and writer, hit the road to Africa. The intention, I presume, to be in South Africa for the World Cup, 1995.

Naturally there are the standard 'ripped off in Malawi' adventures, but just as it gets above tedium, it all goes pear-shaped. The author decides to leave his friends and spend the last half of the book with Lord and Lady Delemere, somewhere in Kenya. Naturally their son is a friend of his, and it's all too awful to retell.

If you want to read about some twit who gave up the hardships of a LandRover and spent six months boring ex-pats to death, then this is the book for you. If like everyone else you got the book thinking it would be a decent enough travel book, a few chaps going through Africa, then you'll be sorely disappointed.

The last chapters are so awful you wish you had a LandRover just so you could drive to Kenya and hit the author on the nose. A terrible terrible cross-Africa book, possibly the worst travel book I've ever read. Burnt.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars what a wasted opportunity!, 9 Nov 2000
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I was really disappointed with this book - it gets off to a cracking start, thanks mainly to Charles Jacoby's talent for humourous writing. It very soon wears thin, though. Essentially, they failed to do what they set out to do (traverse the whole of Africa together in a jeep) and from Uganda onwards Jacoby travels alone. Although when I say travel, what I really mean is shuttle between various very posh old school-mates as quickly as possible to get to Cape Town. That's what I mean by "what a waste". If you're a Rugby fan, I think you'll be disappointed by the lack of Rugby. If you enjoy humour, then read the first half. If you're interested in travel, don't bother at all. If you like reading about Lord and Lady Whoever and their marvellous 10,000 acre farm and their unruly "coloured" staff, then you'll love it! (but then again you might just as well get Hello! or Country Life - it'd be a darn sight cheaper).
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