Zen and the art of Donkey Maintenance [Audiobook] download free by Robert Crisp
- Listen audiobook: Zen and the art of Donkey Maintenance
- Author: Robert Crisp
- Release date: 2015/11/25
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781448215232
- Rating: 9.31 of 10
- Votes: 195
- Review by: Luis Mayer
- Review rating: 9.15 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/22
- Duration: 2H48M35S in 256 kbps (45.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPEG4, Apple Lossless, WMA, WAV, MP3 (compression RAR, ISO, ZIP, TBZ, IMG)
- Total pages original book: 228
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M26S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: I looked again at the folded map of Europe in my hand. Then I crossed the road to the Continental booking office and bought a ticket for Salzburg in Austria. 'Return?' asked the clerk. 'Definitely not,' I told him. In December 1966, the New Year looked exciting for fifty-five-year-old Robert Crisp. As a man whose youth was spent in constant adventure, leading a calm, domestic life in England had become a burden from which he needed to break free. Named by Wisden as 'One of the most extraordinary men ever to play Test cricket,' Crisp served as a soldier in the Second World War in Greece and North Africa for which he was decorated for bravery, later becoming a writer and journalist.With his marriage over and his sons old enough to fend for themselves, Crisp decided to start a new life. With sixty pounds in his pocket, his wartime disability pension of ten pounds a month, and a plan to write about his adventures under a pseudonym, his journey began. Through twenty columns filed from abroad over years of rustic living and travel, Crisp, as Peter White, shared his experiences of hitch-hiking through Yugoslavia, settling in a beach shack in Greece where he attempted to cultivate the stubborn land, and a nearly fatal solo boat trip around Corfu. As the first year of his dream life came to a close, he found out that the stomach pain he had been suffering was not a side effect of too much Greek wine, but cancer. With a prediction of only one year to live, he set off on a trek around Crete, his only companion a donkey with plenty of personality.Robert Crisp's account of his travels, originally serialised in the Sunday Express, is an honest, funny, touching account of this charming rogue's journey through a foreign land and culture in search of inner peace and happiness.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Memoirs, Travel Writing
- Download servers: Uploaded, JustBeamit, Monova, Syncthing, FreakShare, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Torrent, 4Shared. Compressed in RAR, ISO, ZIP, TBZ, IMG
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 26.08 USD
- Dimensions: 153x234x13.46mm
- Weight: 392g
- Printed by: Bloomsbury Reader
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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