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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19940109
Author:SEBASTIAN FAULKS

THE AIM of this book is to make its author the pounds 28,000 he owes the Inland Revenue. Nigel Williams's young son suggested that a larky trip up the Thames in the wash of Jerome K Jerome's famous journey might do the trick, and he may well have been right.

Even if the book doesn't make that much, the outing sounds enjoyable enough to have taken the sting out of the Revenue's demands. For the other two men in the boat Williams chooses a professional explorer called John Paul, for whom a paddle up the river is a welcome break from swinging through rainforests or bivouacking on the north face ...

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