Last Travels of a Fat Bulldog Hardcover – 25 May 2000

George Courtauld's many fans will be relieved that the Foreign Office, after having officially retired him from his post as Queen's Messenger, asked him after all to carry on. As a result he has recently visited - among other places - Mongolia, China, South Africa, Kenya, the Persian Gulf, Chile, Brazil, Oman, Israel and Thailand, and we have a final brilliant instalment of his reports on his travels. He is, as ever, infectiously interested in everything he comes across; flora, fauna, architecture, art, history - but it is above all the quirkiness of his favourite species, Homo sapiens, that delights him most. With a sharp ear for speech and an acute eye for the absurd, this is one of the funniest travel series to appear for many years.

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