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While living in Scotland, I came up with the idea to hitchhike around Australia photographing everyone who gave me a lift and writing about each hitch. I’d never hitched before and the fear of the unknown was scary enough but, if I didn’t do it, the image of me as an old man looking back on what might have been, scared me even more. I knew that if someone else were to do it, I’d never forgive myself.
After sitting on the idea for nearly five years, I decided "this is it". I packed up my life in Edinburgh and returned to Australia to begin the most challenging, apprehensive, amazing time of my life.
My journey lasted for eight months and 11 days and I hitchhiked more than 23,000km (14,000 miles), the equivalent of over halfway around the world. As my final hitch approached Melbourne, the emotions brewing inside me were a mixture of sadness and satisfaction. Sadness, because it was all over. Satisfaction for the same reason. Eventually these paled into insignificance as an over-riding sense of contentment swept through me. I’d done it!

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Steve Butcher is a tabloid photographer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is young. He is Australian. His life behind the lens is far from glamorous and he often finds himself sitting in his car outside people’s houses for hours on end waiting to ‘snatch’ them and getting into fights with petty criminals while trying to photograph them.
Steve’s life away from the tabloids revolves around the flat he shares with Frank and Malcy. Steve and Frank share a love of beer and football. Malcy is a financially challenged university student who prefers watching Star Trek: Next Generation to studying. Barry, the racist, lives upstairs. Olivia lives next door. Steve, Frank and Malcy all fancy her but are too scared to make a move in case it ruins a perfectly good friendship.
Set against the contrasting beauty of the seasons, Steve views his world through the eyes of an outsider. He discovers a country steeped in history, a city of intense beauty and a passionate people. By the time Steve’s fourth Scottish winter arrives, he is over it all. When a nasty sniffle turns into an even nastier head cold and he is forced to spend hours at a time on a succession of dubious snatches, he is at his wits end. Then he sees a sign in a window ...

*This book comes with a language alert.

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