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Article: Tropic of Capricorn: Circling the World on a Southern Adventure.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- July 1, 2008
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Tropic of Capricorn: Circling the World on a Southern Adventure
by Simon Reeve
BBC Books, hb, pp376, 17.99 [pounds sterling]
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The shortest distance between two points is universally acknowledged to be a straight line, but the Tropic of Capricorn is hardly a short cut. Imaginary it might well be, but this particular straight line is 36,749 kilometres long.
In travelling along it for a BBC series, Simon Reeve learns that the golden fur on an impala's backside resembles McDonald's Golden Arches (they're 'every carnivore's favourite fast food'); discovers that the honey badgers of the Kalahari might sound ...