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G438 Round the Bend: From Luton to Peru, to Ningallo, a Search for Life after Redudancy

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Title of the book:  Round the Bend: From Luton to Peru, to Ningallo, a Search for Life after Redudancy Author:  Alistair McGuinness Publisher: Matador Books Publishing Date: 2014 ISBN: 978-1-78088-390-8 Summary: From the Amazon to the  Andes  and Kilimanjaro to  Cape Town .  This adventure story captures the reality and exhilaration of leaving home to undertake Gap Year travel in  South America ,  Africa ,  Fiji  and  Australia . Three things happened simultaneously. The lioness charged, Alistair fled across the parched savannah and his wife screamed for him to run faster. Stuffed deep inside his tattered rucksack was a guidebook containing advice on what to do in wildlife emergencies, which he planned to read if he survived the next thirty seconds. Future plans to climb Kilimanjaro, teach English in the Amazon and live in  Australia  were temporarily forgotten as he turned to face the pouncing liones...