Novel Exploring Gifts

The Bookworm

Joey discovers the difference between coffee beans and jelly beans.

'Are you sure that's the right map?'

"Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme takes a celebrity to the most extreme places on Earth!"

"Have you been on the moon again, young man?"

The fate of the emigrant

Wildlife

The experienced backpacker.

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

Easter Island legs

Tourists

"You say it all the time, so I climbed every tree to prove it. You were right, money doesn't grow on trees."

Road sign: "Good Start, but you've still got a ways to go."

Man painting over a 'You are here' sign.

"The Ice Age must've caught him by surprise..."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Alien David statue

Winter Coat Check at a Tropical Destination's Airport

'What zip code are we in now?'

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."

'He's not a pet. He's an endangered species.'

"If you're tired of stegosaur, go kill something else."

The Bookworm

Reading my Critics

'I want to visit the very EDGE of civilisation, to explore the BRUTAL shores of natures most REMOTE regions. If you could manage that with a five star hotel and first class travel it would be perfect.'

'We look for a new drug, we find a virus - we look for a new virus, we find a drug...'

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

World Tour.

"Damn. I think I missed the turn for Bethlehem."

"I'm from brokers without borders. Invest in deserted island reits!"

'Dr Hodges, here, is from England and he's been observing us for 14 years. Mr Ferrell, an American, has been here only 3 weeks. Monique Corveu, from Paris, has practically been living with us for about nine years...'

An astronaut fishes in volcanoes on another planet.