![]() ![]() It didn't ruin the book for me but it is jarring. This is a witty and endearing account of low budget travel (something which does not appeal to me but which I do enjoy hearing about other people doing) in Asia.My only minor quibble is that the otherwise excellent narrator appears to have a limited vocabulary and whenever he encounters an unfamiliar word (not a foreign one, an English one) he makes a total hash of the pronunciation. So, I very much loved Eastern Horizons and standing in the shoes, metaphorically speaking, of another as they did just that. I am particularly fascinated by Afghanistan and would love to visit the country if it weren't highly likely that they would shoot me on sight. Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia. It paints plenty of detailed pictures, and includes historical notes about the included areas, giving a good idea of the local cultures. And yet, it still gives me a thrill to read (listen to) travel literature. Eastern Horizons: Hitchhiking The Silk Road by Levison Wood. This travel book on the author's journey from Russia to India via the Middle East is a long way from Bill Bryson, involving hitchhiking, sleeping rough and getting into genuinely dangerous situations. I've lived in a dozen or more countries and visited many more. I love to travel, I've been on the road for over 20 years now on my very slow crawl to nowhere from nowhere special. ![]()
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