An Ordinary Man's Travels in an Extraordinary World by Jeff Brown

An Ordinary Man's Travels in an Extraordinary World by Jeff Brown

Can we do a deal? If you buy this book, to help raise money for meningitis and septicaemia research, you will be taken around the world. What do you think?

I'll take that as a maybe. For this world trip, you just need a comfortable seat and a glass of something good. We are aiming to reach every continent, but your guide is Jeff so don't blame me if he doesn't get you past Calais. Although he does promise you a disappearing hostel, wrong trains, flashing Danes, vulture assassins, lost cities, a thoroughly wrong but delightfully British sweepstake, murder on the Inca Trail, a death-defying comeback and so much more.

These are the seven travel diaries of Jeff Brown sewn into one book. He takes you on a journey of novice interrailing in Europe, surviving the beautiful culture shock of India, simple backpacking in Australia, exploring Peru in a group trip, seeing the wildlife of Namibia and finally on to an almost competent solo traveller in Mexico and Guatemala. Then, just when you are most comfortable, the last diary will catapult you into the land of PICU.

At the very least, read the last diary, as your life, or something even more important, may depend on it.

80% of the author royalties from this book are being donated to the Meningitis Research Foundation. The Meningitis Research Foundation helps to power the research, action and advocacy for a world free from meningitis and septicaemia.

Updates on the amount raised and pictures from the events in this book are on Jeff's website.

As a bedtime story for his sons, Jeff Brown invented the beloved character of Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley, Stanley and the Magic Lamp, Invisible Stanley, Stanley's Christmas Adventure, Stanley in Space, and Stanley, Flat Again! are among his other crazy books about the Lambchop family.