Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance, by Robert Crisp
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Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance, by Robert Crisp
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I looked again at the folded map of Europe in my hand. Then I crossed the road to the Continental booking office and bought a ticket for Salzburg in Austria. "Return?" asked the clerk. "Definitely not," I told him.
In December 1966, the New Year looked exciting for fifty-five-year-old Robert Crisp. As a man whose youth was spent in constant adventure, leading a calm, domestic life in England had become a burden from which he needed to break free. Named by Wisden as "One of the most extraordinary men ever to play Test cricket," Crisp served as a soldier in the Second World War in Greece and North Africa for which he was decorated for bravery, later becoming a writer and journalist.
With his marriage over and his sons old enough to fend for themselves, Crisp decided to start a new life. With sixty pounds in his pocket, his wartime disability pension of ten pounds a month, and a plan to write about his adventures under a pseudonym, his journey began. Through twenty columns filed from abroad over years of rustic living and travel, Crisp, as Peter White, shared his experiences of hitch-hiking through Yugoslavia, settling in a beach shack in Greece where he attempted to cultivate the stubborn land, and a nearly fatal solo boat trip around Corfu. As the first year of his dream life came to a close, he found out that the stomach pain he had been suffering was not a side effect of too much Greek wine, but cancer. With a prediction of only one year to live, he set off on a trek around Crete, his only companion a donkey with plenty of personality.
Robert Crisp's account of his travels, originally serialised in the Sunday Express, is an honest, funny, touching account of this charming rogue's journey through a foreign land and culture in search of inner peace and happiness.
Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance, by Robert Crisp- Amazon Sales Rank: #2492752 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .53" w x 6.02" l, .79 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 228 pages
About the Author Robert Crisp was an extraordinary man: a Test cricketer described by Wisden as "one of the most extraordinary men to play Test cricket"; a decorated soldier (DSO, MC); a journalist who founded the South African newspaper, Drum, and wrote for The East Anglian Daily Times and The Sunday Express; an author, a mink farmer, an adventurer, a charmer. In short, a man of many talents.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A most extraordinary man and book. By C. Bryan Robert Crisp was a man unmanageable except by his own wit and lights. I was fascinated to read how the WWII tank hero who participated in some of the great underdog and under-weaponed battles of WWII, (Greece and the Western Desert in Libya.), beat cancer with the help of his Greek doctors and his own imbibing a chemotherapeutic preparation instead of applying topically. Broke the rules once again. He is most comfortable in desperate discomfort and ambiguity, where his perception of events shortly to come in nature allows him to cope, perhaps unlike events in the human world where reality is a matter of perception, conniving, and hostile plans of people very unlike him. I see in him a need to get back to basics of existence, far from plans to disrupt his options. If, like reading a novel, you suspend disbelief and accept that he 'had to' leave domesticity and live rough on a Greek peninsula in a donated ramshackle home, his only income a soldier's disability pension, it is vitally interesting. His relationships with the donkey and his adopted animals show him in a sympathetic light. People really loved him, wherever he went, when things were simple and they didn't need him to execute behaviors and plans. I knew a war hero in Vietnam who was most interested in what happened in the next five minutes rather in longer range speculations. Is there explanation here? Would Bob Crisp have been a hero if he were pedestrian and methodical? The newspaper columns he was paid for as he later circumnavigated Crete on foot have been collected with earlier and later writings and carefully compiled into this book, published posthumously by his family. Here's a man who lived at the most basic. To read this book is to touch a life, one of the most extraordinary lives of our times. Read it and find encouragement. After having speculated so much about him, I must add that I awaited this publication and bought it on the day of publishing, because I have such high regard for Robert Crisp, having read both Brazen Chariots and The Gods were Neutral. Something about him illuminates our times and lives. Thanks to his children for their hard work. I hope it becomes a further legacy for the family.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Armchair Vintage Travels in Greece By bookwomen37 I picked up this book because I enjoy reading vintage travel and adventure books and this one did not disappoint. I had never heard of Robert Crisp/Peter White before nor am I familiar with Cricket but I still enjoyed it. This book is mainly a collection of collection of articles he wrote in Greece and sent back to England. The beginning and end give a brief biography of Robert Crisp. The first part of the book is interesting but I really enjoyed his walk around Crete with his Donkey Gaithuri. I wish there had been more of his attempt to row around Corfu. Enjoy this book for an Armchair Vintage Travel to Greece.I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By A. W. Wreford Really different and fascinating story. Buy it and read it in one go.
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