Peter Moore Author of The Wrong Way Home
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It brought back memories of back packing in China in 1990. You made me remember the frustration of trying to arrange anything there in those days. Days there were either very hard or very rewarding.
I love to travel and I thought I would love this book but it was lacking in any real insight or wisdom. Just kind of a travel log about an interesting trip. Don't buy this because it might be a Bill Bryson... Bryson does a good book, with his astute descriptions of people he meets, and places he sees. This gives good descriptions of places that he sees, but there's virtually no people involved. Which is a shame, because if this self-styled hippie actually bothered to speak to other people, it would be quite a good book.
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His experiences range from delightful to frustrating. Eight months, and 25 countries later, he finally reaches home, Sydney. Peter Moore, I adore you--too bad I'm already married! Details his true attempt to return home to Australia from England using no planes. He's witty and brilliant, all his travel books are gems.
With woefully inadequate funds and little hope of actually making it through such notorious hot-spots as the Balkans, Iran and Afghanistan, Peter – never one to err on the side of caution – followed the trail overland to the East over the next eight months and through twenty-five countries. When Peter Moore announced he was going to travel from London to his home in Sydney without boarding an aeroplane he was met with a resounding Why? The answer was perversity and a severe case of hippie envy - hippies had the best music, they had the best drugs, they had the best sex. In 1994 Peter decides to travel from London to Sydney without flying, and on a shoestring budget. He was following the ol' hippie trail from the '60s.
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Really funny without ever going over-the-top to exaggerate situations. Quite an entertaining journey in which Mr Moore seemed to have fulfilled his ambition to retrace the hippy trail - filled with uproarious encounters specially that English teacher on the way to Prague and on the China-Laotian border and also some quite poignant ones like those in Bosnia.... I was particularly interested in the chapters on the Balkans. He must look back on that part of his journey and think how utterly mad it was. Personally, I can think of very little less appealing than living out of a backpack for six straight months while travelling on a hell of a lot of buses, because frankly?
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Peter Moore’s first travelogue details his overland journey from London to Sydney as he follows in the hippy trail popularised during the 1960’s and 70’s. There were moments when I wanted to applaud Moore for his choice to travel home overland, and there were times when he did monumentally stupid things and I wanted to slap some sense into him. There were moments that were totally mindblowing because 1994 doesn't seem like THAT long ago, and yet so much about the world has changed. And there were moments that made me go "Thank Christ we don't have to do that any more". Yes, buying international phone cards to be able to contact your family, I'm looking at you.
Access to knowledge is more important than ever—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Looks like I’ll have to read the one detailing your adventures on a scooter too. The calling is to see the castle built by Babak Khorramdin and the dam and the two bridges built centuries ago nearby. Meeting real people in Iran is foremost in my heart.
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With actually going anywhere off the agenda for the moment, I thought I’d cheat a bit and create a ‘Top 5 Experiences’ list for each of my books. This book quickly hopped to the top of Mt. TBR, since once I get a Peter Moore book in my sights, the rest of the world does not exist. This book was fabulous, not only is his writing as engaging as ...
Poignantly and movingly, today on VJ day I have just read the section about your grandfather. With woefully inadequate funds and little hope of actually making it through such notorious hot-spots as the Balkans, Iran and Afghanistan, I threw caution to the wind and followed the trail overland to the East. An exciting and interesting tale of a mans travels though beautiful countrys and dam right dangerous places. On completion, I went on to read 'Vroom with a View' and tracked down his website. He has numerous titles to his name and eventually I'll read all of them. Though this trip was ~10 years ago, it was wonderful insight into travel to exotic places like Iran, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Laos, plus others.
A fun, quick read with good, brisk writing and interesting observations. I agree with previous reviewers that it's fine to skip chapters you're not interested in; it's easy to get back into the book at any point. I loved the music recommendations at the beginning of each chapter. This was the first journey I took with Peter Moore, and it was a hell of a trip.... It was everything you want to have when you go on a nine months trip around the world. OK, so China was a bit long, but it's a big country after all!!!
If you are looking for a book that combines travel writing with dry humor, than look no further than the work of this Aussie backpacker. I came across his name while traveling myself - I asked one of my fellow travelers if she could recommend a funny travel writer, and she suggested Moore. In this book the author sets off from London at some point in the late 1990s, determined to get home to Sydney by an overland route and without getting on a plane. He has an interest in checking out the old hippie trail as well. Most travel writers inform us about the culture, history, cuisine, and people of distant lands as they move across a landscape, getting into adventures, meeting locals, and sharing their knowledge and perceptions.
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