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When Jeremy Macdonogh left the ivory towers of Cambridge University in 1970, the United Kingdom was on the brink of melt-down. His degree in History and Philosophy was utterly unsalable in the real world. Few graduates would land a salary unless their degrees were in some banausic discipline, like Medicine or Law. The author, in consequence, 'wasted' a few years in Europe, the story of which he has told in A Gap Year or Two. In the process, ho...

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Jeremy Macdonogh went on a rumbustious romp through Europe in the early 70s to delay becoming something in the City. Armed only with a degree, a dinner jacket and precocious self-confidence, he charms and finesses his way through a hundred hilarious situations, from which spring many interesting digressions and asides which are the real heart of this highly entertaining book. The blend of snippets of history, myth, gossip, philosophy and obser...

Let's hope this book is only Part One. It has everything: adventure, food and wine, exotic locations, sex, wit, scholarship, unforgettable trivia, high-end dialogue, royalty, art and architecture, pathos, and above all the sheer joie de vivre of the author as he careers his picaresque way to adulthood. More! More!' James Burke In 1970, there was no better way to waste time, with a little style of course, than to take a Cambridge educatio...