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Hi, if you’ve made it to this page then I assume that you’d
like to learn a little more about my book. I was born in England in
the mid-sixties and spent the first twenty years of my life there. I
legally left school at the age of fifteen and shortly after this I got
involved in the U.K. punk scene. I loved this era but I also knew
(back then) that there was a lot more out there, than just lazing
around in my hometown for the rest of my time on this rock. Two days after my twentieth birthday (in 1987) I left Great Britain
to travel the world. Since that day I've never looked back. At first,
I lived in a tent in Holland and worked on a few of their bulb farms.
After getting some money together I later ventured on to Germany, but
due to an unforeseen mishap, I ended up right back where I started, in
jolly old ‘Mother England.’ In the summer of 1988, I flew to the other side of the world to
hitchhike around Australia. This is where the real hitchhiking began.
In fact, in the ten years that I was on the road, I hitched just over
64,000 miles and entered fifteen countries. Ironically this wasn't the
foundation for my writings. What was, was the fact that in the decade
that followed, I only slept rough for a mere eight nights. When I originally left England I only knew a handful of
individuals, but as the years passed, nearly all of my accommodation
(once I got on the road in Australia) came from the very people who
picked me up hitching. Never once did I pay to sleep in a motel or a
hotel (because I couldn't afford such a luxury) while I was wandering
around. Also, in all that time, I never once asked a driver if I could
stay at their home. The book, which covers many of my escapades, goes into the first
three years of my travels. It took me twenty years on and off to
complete this very task. Length wise, the story is around 277,000
words. Right now this novel is available on Amazon within the U.S. and
also the U.K. There are other Amazon sites around Europe too where
this can be purchased. The two main Amazon links are as follows: If your in the U.S. the Kindle and paperback link is Freedom on the
Highway If your in the U.K. the Kindle and paperback link is
Freedom on the Highway This novel can also be purchased as an e-book which you can read on
your laptop or desktop computer. Its in plain text, just like the
Kindle version. This is expained below: To get the e-book, the Paypal link is at the base of this webpage
and it's $10 U.S. The e-book will be forwarded to you in Acrobat (pdf
format) so it's really easy to read. I'd like to thank you for your time and I hope that you will enjoy
reading my story. I've put up three sample chapters of my book on this website. Cheers, Johnny Anderson:
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