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"This text is easily one of the most entertaining reads of 2016, one that you’ll certainly want to pick up." International Soccer Network
"Hartley writes with wisdom and passion as he shares his world in these thoroughly entertaining travel diaries." Huw Edwards
"You don’t have to be a football fan to hugely enjoy this this politically defined and relevant account of the sport." Paul Simon, Morning Star
"Tim's message also seems to be - Open your eyes when you next travel. For there is a world beyond Subway and cheep foreign lager. It is a world which Tim describes well." David Collins
"Hartley introduces us to thoughtful insights on foreign governments, which allow this book to expand the mind of anyone who picks up a copy." Kara Gurr, Buzz Magazine
"The author of this remarkable book seems to have a nose for the bizarre. To paraphrase an old lager ad, Hartley takes us to places that most mortals cannot reach; indeed, dare not reach... It is a volume that I shall return to time and time again. Indeed, well into extra time." Lyn Ebenezer, Gwales
Travel junkie Tim Hartley is a man with a thirst for understanding the modern world, or worlds, we live in. He is equally at home herding reindeer with the last of the Sami people or watching football in a silent crowd of 50,000 in North Korea. Whether he is getting lost in a favela in Brazil or taking his mum back to the Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Hartley casts a piercing and sometimes judgmental eye on the kaleidoscopic world around him.
Kicking off in North Korea is one man’s attempt to make sense of globalisation, his beloved game of football and his own place in the world. Hartley can be serious when he is discussing blood feuds in Albania and hilarious when he ‘does’ Mexico in five-star luxury with his wife.
We meet his seven-year-old son Chester for a child’s-eye view of the Palestinian question in Beirut and then follow them both to east London twelve years later where the son has a lesson for his dad.
In these uplifting travel diaries Hartley crosses the world in search of authentic stories and people. More often than not he finds them.