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GET UP AND GO: Around the World on Twenty-Five Pounds.
Edition: First printing.
London: Allan Wingate, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - From Trieste to Greece, Syria, Iraq, India, and Australia and New Zealand and more. A young boy - 16 years of age - with only 9 pounds left out of his original 25, meets up with a 24 year old woman, and she begins to teach him how to flatter the border guards to get a transit visa, and how to create an image of a normal tourist, and more the beginning of a 5 1/2 years of hitchhiking from country to country. Illustrated with black-white photographs. 303 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (offsetting to the table of contents)
Book ID: 85963More details Price: $25.00