Perpetual Motion

Commentary and social observation come together in this travel book from one of Australia's most celebrated wanderers. Wholly uninterested in what time the number ten bus departs or how lovely Amsterdam's tulips are this spring, Glenn Baker goes instead in search of a haemorrhoid-curing Buddha in a Japanese castle, sidesteps bomb craters in Vietnam, hunts down Santa Claus on a runaway reindeer sled in the Arctic Circle, tucks into jerk pork in a Jamaican tin shed, swims under waterfalls in the wilds of Venezuela and helps hammer down the Berlin Wall.