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Travels With The Flea
and other eccentric journeys
By Jim PerrinJim Perrin has long been recognised as the finest of British mountaineering and outdoor writers, with regular, outstanding features in the Daily Telegraph, Climber and TGO. His earlier essays are wildly anarchic, attitude-steeped, latter-day classics of the counter-cultural sport of climbing. His 1985 biography of Menlove Edwards (Menlove) won the Boardman-Tasker award and is regarded as one of the great texts in mountain literature.
In Travels with The Flea, Perrin turns to travel-writing and moves between Kazakstan and Cuba, Hungary, the Himalaya and the High Arctic. The result is a collection of travel essays that read like Hunter S Thompson meets Robert Byron. Whether travelling by canoe to visit tribes of former headhunters in the Borneo rain forest, riding a Harley Davidson round the Rockies, being propositioned in Portland or walking through Wales with his little dog, the Flea, these are tales of human frailty and resilience, of perception, comedy and joy, framed in precise knowledge and related by one of travel-writing’s consummate literary stylists and originals – an eccentric and outrageous adventurer with an ear for the quirky, a sense of reverence, and an eye for the beauty of the world in whatever form it presents.
‘He gets his joy, and expresses it like
a poet, from solitude and nature.’
the Observer
‘a remarkable writer . . . a sort of rucksack Thoreau
. . . some of the finest travel writing ever’ Jan Morris, in the Guardian
Key Features
The best collected writings from one of Britain's foremost travel wriiters.
Reviews
'Jim Perrin is an alchemist. He takes the base metal of his own experience and, in retorts fuelled by the power of his observation and skill with language, transmutes it into prose that coruscates with spirit and meaning.’ Jamie Jauncey, the Scotsman
About the Author
About Jim Perrin
Jim Perrin is Britain's finest mountaineering and outdoor writer with regular, outstanding features in the Daily Telegraph, Climber and TGO. His 1985 biography of Menlove Edwards (Menlove) won the Boardman Tasker award and The Villain, a portrait of Don Whillans won the same award in 2005. He also contributes a country diary to The Guardian.All Titles by Jim Perrin
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