Full Circle

Travelling in the 1980s was not as widespread or as popular as it is today, nor quite as straightforward (no mobile phones, no Internet). In August 1986 Mark Richards and Lesley Rush packed in their jobs and decided to travel the world, full circle, east to west. This book is a contemporary record of that adventure, taken directly from Mark's handwritten page-a-day diary.  But it’s not just a travel journal - it’s a love story between two people who were engaged in Fiji and married in Hong Kong (under British rule in those days, so all legitimate); a couple who experienced happiness, frustration, fear, illness (Mark mainly), love, boredom, exhilaration and ultimately self-fulfilment; but most of all, the memories of the wonderful people they met and the sheer joy of being young and alive and discovering what was for them an unknown world.