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Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 Mph
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Product Description
After planning the entire trip on the back of a beer mat, buying a 1958 decommissioned milk float on eBay and charging its tired batteries, the team set off from Lowestoft to Land's End. On the way, they discovered that their float needs to charge for eight hours for every two hours it spends on the road. Relying on the milk of human kindness, they were at the mercy of strangers every night, sometimes even using other people's cookers just to keep the show on the road.
En route, they were treated to tea and rock cakes by the Vice President of the WI, succeeded in blacking out a Cornish campsite whilst charging their float (now dubbed The Mighty One), stayed with the monks at Buckfast Abbey where they undertook a vow of silence, and, drove five hundred miles to Tintagel, the birth place of King Arthur, only to find it had closed all in the name of discovering lost England.
You may be thinking: why on earth don't these men drive a car like normal people? But this is no ordinary journey. This is an eccentric odyssey through the English countryside. Three Men in a Float is about all things English and the pleasure to be had if you are prepared to slow down, get out of your car and go off the beaten track.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #223629 in Books
- Published on: 2009-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Brilliant
(Daily Mail )'A lovely story'
(Sue Baker, Publishing News )'Slow travel and much hilarity result'
(Bookseller )'Absolutely enchanting and delightfully absurd'
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‘Such genuine humour behind the story that it makes the venture a success’
(Sunday Telegraph )‘Brilliant’
(Daily Mail )'Slow travel and much hilarity result'
(Bookseller )'A lovely story'
(Sue Baker, Publishing News )'Absolutely enchanting and delightfully absurd'
(Good Book Guide )‘Gently amusing’
(Manchester Evening News )
About the Author
Dan Kieran was the editor of the original bestselling Crap trilogy and is currently writing I Fought the Law. He is Deputy Editor of the Idler and has written for many of the nationals. Ian Vince is the author of The Myway Code and Britain: What a State. He has written for Radio 4, Channel 4s Bremner, Bird and Fortune and BBC3s forthcoming comedy sketch show School Run.
Customer Reviews
That's what I call slow travel!
A very funny, and fascinating story of three men crossing England in an electric milk float. I loved the radio 4 programme about their trip but having read the book it seems that barely scratched the surface of their month-long journey. A top read.
Three Men In A Float
Three Men In A Float is a great read in the old tradition of British travel writing. The journey recounted is not unique by any means, many have travelled a similar route, but none in such a unique fashion, and rarely with such humour and warmth.
Whilst the journey alone makes the book worth reading, the wider issues raised, even if incidental to the story, make the book doubly worthwhile. I highly recommend it to any reader.
