The Spectator, February 23rd, 2008
GOING AS FAR AS I CAN by Duncan Fallowell Profile Books, £12.99, pp.279, ISBN 9781846680694 £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 If you were left a legacy by a friend would you tuck it away, blow it on art, or buy something for your home or the person you share it with? Notting Hill-based writer Duncan Fallowell decided to do what it says on the cover and go as far as he could. Why? 'So that I need never travel again. Because I'll have cracked the planet, finally solved the terrible mystery of distance, and can relax.' It is a tall order, but one that he tries valiantly, humourously...
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