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Title: Broke Through Britain: One Man's Penniless Odyssey by Peter Mortimer ISBN: 1-84018-163-X Publisher: Mainstream Pub Co Ltd Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $17.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: inspirational reading
Comment: This book was un put downable. A man after my own heart. Searching for his own odyssey. So sad when Sam had to go.it insists the reader searches their own heart concerning attitudes to passions and dreams. A real account of a mans struggles and achievements against all odds and with no money. Different reactions to requests for food and shelter. Makes one question ones own potential reqponses. An incredible read for any walker who needs encouragement.Puts real life into perspective. PLEASE READ!

Rating: 5
Summary: A Different Look at the UK.
Comment: I picked this book from a bookstore table piled high with travel books. It was just the job to occupy me for part of a long plane ride from London, England to Western Canada.
In each short chapter, Peter Mortimer has to solve his daily challenge of walking through the UK with no money and beg food and accommodation for his journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh. He accomplishes this daunting task with charm and confidence and gives the reader an incident by incident, light and witty account of his travels. I wanted to keep reading on to find out how he solved his daily quest for food and shelter.
This is not really a travel book and not really a walking book but a slice of personal journalism. Given the crime ridden and paranoid character of contemporary urban society Mortimer brings off quite an achievement (He does this partly by sticking to rural routes). This book proved to be for me a light and amusing read for a long flight.

Rating: 5
Summary: This wageslave dreams on . ..
Comment: It was worth being stuck at home with the first streaming cold for about five years, to read Peter Mortimer's Broke in Britain.
The author's self-imposed task was to get himself from Plymouth, in the south of England, to Edinburgh, some 500 miles away, with a small dog for company, unprepared feet, an umbrella, a modicum of clothing, and not a penny in cash, nor any plastic money. And then to turn the discipline of his daily diary into a book.
The result is a fascinating reflection on modern British society, its bad bits and its brilliant ones. I could not put the book down, even while pouring the umpteenth large single medicinal malt, and polished it off in a few hours (the book, that is). I was there in spirit every step of the journey, free from the chains of office and computer, learning about my own country which I barely know, and even more about human nature.
Peter's style is so approachable and unpretentious, yet poetic and funny and ultimately very moving. Next time he's passing through Devon, I hope he calls in to Holsworthy, in a farming area devastated by foot and mouth last year - there'll be a warm welcome. There's even a chiropodist in town . . .
Keep putting those best feet forward, Peter

Yours admiringly, Hilary Vivian