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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Europe @ 2.4 km/h; Author bio; Title page; Imprint page; Contents; Map page 1; Map page 2; Epigraph; Dedication; Prologue -- Which Europe Would That Be?; Chapter 1 -- Magnetic North -- Russia; Chapter 2 -- True North (Refilling the Ocean) -- Norway and Norrland (Central Sweden); Chapter 3 -- Our Bicycles Have Seats -- Southern Sweden, Oslo and Denmark; Chapter 4 -- The Past is a Foreign Country -- Copenhagen, Nykøbing and Bremen; Chapter 5 -- Fellatio at Eleven -- Hamburg, Bremen and the Netherlands; Chapter 6 -- Why is there a Belgium? -- Flanders and Wallonia; Plate section. |
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Chapter 7 -- Close to Civilisation -- GermanyChapter 8 -- French Impressions -- The North of France; Chapter 9 -- Chick Just Happens -- The South of France and Monaco; Chapter 10 -- An Avalanche Without Snow -- Andorra; Chapter 11 -- Broken Railway, Smokin' Bar -- Northern Iberia (Northern Spain, Northern Portugal); Chapter 12 -- The End of Europe -- Southern Iberia (Southern Spain, Southern Portugal); Europilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Back cover. |
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Wheelchair traveller Ken Haley crosses the Continent the long way round - from Russia to Portugal via the Arctic - and finds that Europeans are an endangered species. At the stately pace of 2.4 km/h the author is not out to break too many speed records, and takes comfort in the self-delusion that the slower he goes, the more he sees. |
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Haley, Ken, 1954- -- Travel -- Europe.
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Haley, Ken, 1954- |
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Travel. |
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Europe. |
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Journalists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Journalists. |
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Australia. |
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Biographies.
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Paraplegics -- Australia -- Biography.
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Paraplegics. |
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Europe -- Description and travel.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Haley, Ken. Europe @ 2.4 km/h. Adelaide : Wakefield Press, ©2011 9781862549173 |
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9781743050774 (electronic book) |
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1743050771 (electronic book) |
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9781743050750 (electronic book) |
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1743050755 (electronic book) |
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