A career soldier and a born adventurer and explorer, Guy Deacon was barely 50 when, by then a colonel in the British Army, he was diagnosed with the incurable and crippling disease Parkinson’s. This account of his life before and after the diagnosis focuses on his attempt to drive 18,000 miles single-handedly from the UK and through Africa in aVW camper – soon to be televised as a Channel 4 documentary – both to challenge himself and to raise awareness of the disease. A gritty account that pulls no punches, it’s immensely inspiring without ever dipping into self-pity.
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