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Around the World in 80 Trades
bookshelves: published-2009, winter-20132014, art-forms, travel, tbr-busting-2014, hardback, history, afr-sudan, afr-morocco, dip-in-now-and-again, filthy-lucre, afr-zambia, afr-egypt, skim-through
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: bookmas giftee
Read from January 03 to March 06, 2014
Around the World in 80 Trades 9780330467872
Cover splash tells me that this book is in conjunction with a Channel Four TV series; I'll get M onto it.
Opening: If the Gatling valley were in the English countryside, it would have been designated an 'area of outstanding natural beauty', a successful Victorian industrialist would have erected a stone monument at its summit and thousands of holidaymakers would marvel at it on family walking holidays ever year. As a foothill in the Himalayan region of northern Nepal it merely falls into the 'just another valley' category and is seemingly populated by no one.
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'All Aboard!' First stop is Marrakech.
Carpets are to Morocco what coal used to be to Newcastle. Remember this advert?
Here's the author buying camels in Sudan to sell in Egypt. The plan is to double his money.
After two months of dipping in I skimmed through the last bits as Mr Woodman and I had travelled far enough in one another's company what with his materialism - money this, money that. You know that TV programme that I mentioned at the top, it is in the bag should I want to watch at any stage, however I feel that will be a wee while yet.
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Cover splash tells me that this book is in conjunction with a Channel Four TV series; I'll get M onto it.
Opening: If the Gatling valley were in the English countryside, it would have been designated an 'area of outstanding natural beauty', a successful Victorian industrialist would have erected a stone monument at its summit and thousands of holidaymakers would marvel at it on family walking holidays ever year. As a foothill in the Himalayan region of northern Nepal it merely falls into the 'just another valley' category and is seemingly populated by no one.
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'All Aboard!' First stop is Marrakech.
The souks of Marrakech are home to one of the oldest and most cut-throat markets in the world.
Carpets are to Morocco what coal used to be to Newcastle. Remember this advert?Here's the author buying camels in Sudan to sell in Egypt. The plan is to double his money.
After two months of dipping in I skimmed through the last bits as Mr Woodman and I had travelled far enough in one another's company what with his materialism - money this, money that. You know that TV programme that I mentioned at the top, it is in the bag should I want to watch at any stage, however I feel that will be a wee while yet.
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