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Just As Well I'm Leaving Michael Booth Cape, GBP 12.99
IF YOU like Russian dolls, you will probably love Michael Booth's account of his headlong pursuit of Hans Christian Andersen across Europe - a loopy journey that begins and ends in Denmark, visiting some fleshpots of the mind en route.
Andersen's "lost classic of travel writing", A Poet's Bazaar, is at the centre of this Russian doll, sheathed in the layers of Booth's attempts to repeat Andersen's travels, and the thoughts these inspire. Confused? Well, you may be, but you will also be amused. For as examples of the 'following in the footsteps' genre go, this one is livelier, wittier, better informed and more diligent than average. Booth begins...