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Blood river

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If I had to list places I would not like to visit, I think ‘Anywhere in Africa’ would be pretty damn high on that list.

Not so for Tim Butcher, and I can’t decide if I should applaud his courage or bemoan his (in my mind) pointless bravado.
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“I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month.”
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Translated into over 50 languages and selling over 40 million copies worldwide, Paulo Coelho’s best known work really has a lot to live up to.
The work is clearly an allegorical novel; though the author does state in the foreword that he tried to put as much ‘Truth’ as possible into the story.
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