{"product_id":"charging-around","title":"Charging Around","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExploring the edges of England by electric car\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e‘Tense, funny...and electric’ \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving crossed a continent by train and sailed around the world by container ship, Clive Wilkinson has always had a penchant for slow travel. As his eightieth birthday approaches, he and his wife Joan set out on a new expedition: to tour the edges of England by electric car. How hard could that be?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"176ae9f3-3bf8-40b2-15eb-7e992a27c645\"]' data-w-id=\"176ae9f3-3bf8-40b2-15eb-7e992a27c645\"\u003eGiven the parlous state of the country’s charge-point infrastructure back in 2018, the answer turns out to be ‘very’. In a 1,900-mile odyssey through fading seaside towns, rainswept hilltop passes and England’s only desert, each day’s driving for these unlikely pioneers is overshadowed by a cloud of apprehension. Will they make it to the next charge point? Will it be in working order? Will someone else be using it?\u003cbr data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"LineBreak\"]' data-w-id=\"LineBreak\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"f2840129-b466-9b3c-06ff-973a525876d0\"]' data-w-id=\"f2840129-b466-9b3c-06ff-973a525876d0\"\u003eYou could only undertake such a trip with a calm temperament and robust sense of humour. Fortunately Clive has both. With a relentless curiosity for history, geography and, above all, people, he and Joan explore the reality of life on England’s periphery – the ‘left behind’ areas that, by voting for Brexit, changed the course of British history – making new friends with every mile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"f2840129-b466-9b3c-06ff-973a525876d0\"]' data-w-id=\"f2840129-b466-9b3c-06ff-973a525876d0\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"f2840129-b466-9b3c-06ff-973a525876d0\"]' data-w-id=\"f2840129-b466-9b3c-06ff-973a525876d0\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e‘A delightful, original, amusing tour of some of the UK’s less explored places’\u003cstrong\u003e Chris Mullin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A mix of travelogue, light-touch social commentary and quirky gems of history. A diverting exploration of life in the slow lane’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaga Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The subtitle could equally well have been “a journey in search of a working and compatible charging point”. Frequently hilarious and highly recommended’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Bookbag\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘There’s nothing not to like about\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharging Around\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the best travel books I’ve read of late. Clive Wilkinson is a genuinely comic writer, devoid of arrogance and self-pity. He is a genial travel companion – confident, but never didactic. I was sorry when the journey ended’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE\u0026amp;T Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘As the journey progresses, you realise that, if good travel writing is all about things going horribly wrong, there’s no better way, short of a three-legged donkey, to set out than by electric car’ \u003cstrong\u003eSimon Hacker, \u003cem\u003eStroud Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePaperback: 304pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Eye (April 2023)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: 9781785633454\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eye Books Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41825007796421,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/products\/Unknown.jpg?v=1667572768","url":"https:\/\/www.eyebooksgroup.com\/products\/charging-around","provider":"Eye Books Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}