{"product_id":"9781448215232","title":"Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance","description":"\u003cp\u003eI 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. \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Return?\" asked the clerk.\n\u003cbr\u003e \"Definitely not,\" I told him. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Reader","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48941538017515,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":36.6,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781448215232-1.jpg?v=1783106487","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781448215232","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}