Maps of my life - Guy Browning

Guy Browning, author of the No. 1 bestsellingNever Hit a Jellyfish with a Spadeand popular longstandingGuardiancolumnist, finally turns his unique attention to a rich new comic seam - his own deeply eccentric and far-flung upbringing.

Weaned on maps, educated by maps, surrounded by maps and ever so slightly in love with maps, Guy Browning presents a selection of intriguing and quirkily annotated cartographic gems to chart his unsteady progress from pewling toddler to pewling young man via the furthest corners of the Alps, Niagara Falls, the Mediterranean, Central America and darkest Chipping Norton.Maps of My Liferevisits the richly comic highways, byways and unpaved tracks of Guy's unusually peripatetic early years, peopled with unforgettable relatives, friends and foe such as the Fatted Calf, the Sainted One, Langton Machoko and Marshal LaPoulette...

Beautifully produced with full-colour maps throughout,Maps of My Lifeis one of the funniest autobiographical travel memoirs since Bill Bryson'sThe Lost Continent.