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Zen and the Art of Hip-joint Maintenance - John Caunt
Non-fiction Travel/Humour
Published December 2003
Paperback 210x148mm pp210
ISBN: 0-9546493-0-3
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Amazon and Store Price £8.99
Chineway Online Price £6.99
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Amazon reviews (click to view)
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Land’s End to John O’Groats.
This is the humorous account of an ageing baby-boomer’s end-to-end journey, half on foot and half by bike. It’s bound to make you laugh, and it might well inspire you to dig out your boots and puncture repair kit.
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From the back cover
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What do you do when you hit fifty-five and discover you’ve turned into a grumpy and obsessive old git? For a post-war baby-boomer – a member of the ageless rock generation – this is a desperate situation in need of a radical solution.
John Caunt concludes that the answer to his affliction lies in a new challenge, a trip on footpaths and minor roads from Land’s End to John O’Groats that will give him the chance to sort himself out and recover the spirit of his lost youth. Zen and the Art of Hip-Joint Maintenance is a wry and entertaining account of his bumbling progress through Britain, with his undersized walking boots, oversized cycling shorts and outsized collection of hobby-horses. He reflects upon the people, places and experiences of the journey, the engaging as well as the enraging, and attempts to grapple with some of the great questions of life – why do starlings drop dead on supermarket forecourts, and what is the precise biological function of ear hair in mid-fifties males?
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The author: John Caunt has previously written four personal development books, on sale in 28 countries and twelve languages, and has also co-authored a best-selling autobiography.
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Extract: Click here to view Chapter 1 in PDF format (Adobe Reader 5 and above)
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