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The Last Travels of a Fat Bulldog
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Farmer, ex-business man and a Queen's Messenger for the last fourteen years, George Courtauld is a keen amateur of botany, history and the arts in general. He divides his time between his farm in Essex and the rest of the world.

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'The final, brilliant collection of dispatches from Her Majesty's Mesenger George Courtauld is here. Recalled from official retirement from the Foreign Office, he romps hilariously through the remoter part os Asia, Africa and Latin America.' TRAVELLER'Completely readable Almost every page has some passage that makes one want to laugh aloud. Witty and entertaining' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'George Courtauld is an inveterate sightseer and his account of his travels, totalling over a quarter of a million miles a year, is lively and hilarious. It's a thumping good read' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Up until his recent retirement, George Courtauld worked for the Foreign Office as a Queen's Messenger. If you're not sure what that is, reading this book will leave you none the wiser, for Courtauld--bound by the Official Secrets Act--confines his subject matter to places and people. This adds an air of mystery to the book, and leaves room for more of the Fat Bulldog's tales.Fans of Courtauld's previous books The Travels of a Fat Bulldog and The Fat Bulldog Roams Again will already know the drill, but will be sad to know that this third instalment is to be the last. Reading this book is like reading choice extracts from a most extraordinary diary. In Zambia, Courtauld is taken out to "spot game" at one of the biggest national parks in the world. His host, one Colonel Hawfinch, des

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