By: Brian Robson
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Brian Robson was born in the United Kingdom in June 1945 and has spent most of his adult life travelling and living in various countries throughout Europe and South East Asia. This book narrates his first travelling experience and his devil-may-care attitude to achieve his wish and return home even if it means risking his life to do so.
Most interesting and almost unbelievable read ! How Brian bore being trapped in a crate he could hardly move in was amazing ! To me who lived in Wales for years it proves the meaning of their word 'hiraeth' - homesickness !
A teenager, fed up with his life in Cardiff, takes advantage of a type of assisted passage to Australia where he has a job waiting. No sooner did he arrive than he wanted to go home. What follows is an account of his eleven months in Australia pursuing his ambition to return, but in an utterly feckless and flippant way: passing dud cheques, shooting sheep, stealing railway rides. Eventually, he gets the stupidest of ideas to encase himself in a wooden crate and freight himself back to London. While the story is interestingly told, he allows no room for contrition and exculpation for his dishonesty and the inconvenience to which he put others. Some of his escapades lack credibility, I feel.
