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Antipodes

Antipodes

The Ingenious and Exhilirating Expedition

by Mark Price
Publication Date: 15/11/2009

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What can a modestly capable man of adventure do when every mountain has been climbed, every river navigated to its source, and every Guinness record stretched to impossibility? He can spin a globe of the world and discover that his small country has its own antipodes u yet unknown and unexplored! He can take 360-degree photos of 'Perfect Places' in New Zealand, dub himself 'El Lider' and his partner 'La Campa a', and set off to find the exact opposite points in Spain and Portugal. In New Zealand, the expedition is somewhat downbeat. Members are not always cognizant of being on an expedition u if they knew in the first place u as they sample budget margarine in a Canterbury camping ground, traipse from cellar to cellar in Marlborough vineyards, or search an Auckland shopping mall for a soft drink that can be bought with a credit card. Across the world, with the aid of a rented Ford Focus, a GPS system, six white shirts and the intrepidly frugal La Campa a, El Lider's expedition forges paths where no New Zealander has gone before: through gorse and pines, skirting quarries and ponds, nimbly evading horses, pigs, nude farmers' wives and the much-feared El Toro, into the heart of noparticular- where in Spain, to photograph his 'Perfect Place' antipodes. Wryly, drily and with an economy that would do La Campa a proud, author Mark Price tells the bare truth which is funnier than any fiction. And yet, do our two intrepid travellers undergo a slight transformation as the sun of Spain works its magic? This is Kiwi deadpan drollery at its finest!
ISBN:
9781877460364
9781877460364
Category:
Travel & holiday
Publication Date:
15-11-2009
Publisher:
Random House New Zealand
Country of origin:
New Zealand
Dimensions (mm):
205x140x19mm
Weight:
0.38kg
Mark Price

Mark Price lived in Crewe as a child and attended Crewe Grammar School for Boys. He read Archaeology and Ancient History at Lancaster University graduating in 1982. In that year he joined The John Lewis Partnership as a Graduate Trainee and remained with the company for 33 years eventually retiring in March 2016.

Mark was Managing Director of Waitrose for the preceding 10 years and Deputy Chairman of The John Lewis Partnership for 3 years. From 2010 - 2016 he was the founding Chairman of The Prince's Countryside Fund for HRH The Prince of Wales. In 2011 Mark was appointed as Chairman of Business in the Community, a position he held for 4 years.

Alongside his responsibility for running Waitrose Mark joined the Channal 4 TV board in 2010 as a Non Executive Director. In 2013 he was appointed Deputy Chairman. He stepped down from the role in April 2016 when he joined the UK Government, at the invitation of the Rt Hon David Cameron PM, as Minister of State for Trade and Investment. He was made a life peer in February 2016 to become The Lord Price CVO and Baron Price of Sturminster Newton.

Mark was reappointed in the Rt Hon Teressa May's post Brexit Government with specific responsibility for negotiating the UKs future trade deals.

Mark's first book 'The Great British Picnic Guide' was published in 2008. That began Mark writing for pleasure in his spare time. 'The Food Lover's Handbook' was published in 2016 and record what he learned about food and drink during his 17 years on the Waitrose board. His first children's book 'The Foolish King' were also published in 2016. In 2017 he published his first business books: Fairness for all and Workplace Fables.

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