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Between Two Worlds: The Account of a Jet-Setting Vagrant
*****26 January 2023: This edition has been updated with information on the major characters featured in this Uncle Paul, Francis, Ian et al. Find out what they're doing - or not doing - in post-Brexit UK. *****
You will be interested in this book After living through the dramatic collapse of the Zimbabwean economy under the rule of Robert Mugabe, Leo decides to move back to the UK in late 2009.
With a keen eye for detail, he surveys contemporary Britain and takes note of her culture, landscape and idiosyncrasies. With a dash of humour throughout, he recounts a multitude of characters, snippets of conversation and pointed insight.
Circumstance draws him to his estranged, once vagrant, uncle’s abode in the coastal city of Plymouth where the past and present collide unexpectedly.
Two chapters recount how he scrimps and saves in order to jet-set back to Southern Africa, firstly to the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and later in the book, to Harare, Zimbabwe, where he grew up.
I came across your blog a few months back... when I saw that you had published a book too, I bought that and again really enjoyed your writing. So I really just wanted to say thanks for your hard work, I enjoyed both your blog and your book immensely! - Greg Biegel, Perth, Australia (ex-Zimbabwean)
You will be interested in this book After living through the dramatic collapse of the Zimbabwean economy under the rule of Robert Mugabe, Leo decides to move back to the UK in late 2009.
With a keen eye for detail, he surveys contemporary Britain and takes note of her culture, landscape and idiosyncrasies. With a dash of humour throughout, he recounts a multitude of characters, snippets of conversation and pointed insight.
Circumstance draws him to his estranged, once vagrant, uncle’s abode in the coastal city of Plymouth where the past and present collide unexpectedly.
Two chapters recount how he scrimps and saves in order to jet-set back to Southern Africa, firstly to the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and later in the book, to Harare, Zimbabwe, where he grew up.
I came across your blog a few months back... when I saw that you had published a book too, I bought that and again really enjoyed your writing. So I really just wanted to say thanks for your hard work, I enjoyed both your blog and your book immensely! - Greg Biegel, Perth, Australia (ex-Zimbabwean)
209 pages, Paperback
First published July 20, 2012
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About the author
Leo Anthony
4 books6 followersRaised in Zimbabwe, Africa, I have an affinity for the continent and its complexities.
I travelled quite extensively in the last decade which has informed my travel writing. You'll find a particular focus on Turkey, Southern Europe and Africa.
Perhaps as a consequence of being a person of many parts I've struggled to settle down in my adult life. Ironically, as a young man, I never imagined I would want to live anywhere else...
As the great journalistic travel writer Ryszard Kapuscinski points out in his book, Travels with Herodotus,
"A journey does not begin the moment we set off, nor does it end the moment we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable."
Leo Anthony is a pseudonym of Leo Passaportis.
I travelled quite extensively in the last decade which has informed my travel writing. You'll find a particular focus on Turkey, Southern Europe and Africa.
Perhaps as a consequence of being a person of many parts I've struggled to settle down in my adult life. Ironically, as a young man, I never imagined I would want to live anywhere else...
As the great journalistic travel writer Ryszard Kapuscinski points out in his book, Travels with Herodotus,
"A journey does not begin the moment we set off, nor does it end the moment we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable."
Leo Anthony is a pseudonym of Leo Passaportis.
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