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  1. Return Journey
    Author: Brown, David
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Grosvenor House Publishing, New York

    A middle-aged couple fantasise about walking the length of Britain upon retirement, safe enough as retirement is a quarter of a century away. Then illness strikes, early retirement, a promise to be fulfilled. Arriving battered but triumphant at... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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    A middle-aged couple fantasise about walking the length of Britain upon retirement, safe enough as retirement is a quarter of a century away. Then illness strikes, early retirement, a promise to be fulfilled. Arriving battered but triumphant at journeys end, vowing "never again" at the end of their epic journey they find themselves sharing a restaurant with a group of disabled children from a care centre. The couple resolve to repeat the journey the following year raising funds for this centre, their "return journey". Sometimes sad, sometimes heart rending, a funny true life story of determina

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781907652424
    Subjects: Determination -- Fiction; Journey -- Fiction; Retirement -- Fiction; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (215 p.)
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    Cover; Title; 1 Faltering Steps; 2 Northernmost Britain; 3 Highland Scotland; 4 Lowland Scotland; 5 Northern England; 6 Middle England; 7 Home Ground; 8 Final Steps; Epilogue Third and Last; Copyright;