Frost On My Moustache - Tim Moore

I've read a fair few books in the post-Bryson genre in which a journalist goes on a quirky, themed journey for no other reason than to write a subsequent book about it. It's a tough trick to pull off, and here it's a mixed success.

The journey is a recreation of an earlier Scandinavian trek by a Victorian aristocrat, and some of the business early on with the original chap's descendants is a scream, but descriptions of, say, sea-sickness on a container ship are less than enthralling.

This was published in 1999, which made for a laugh when Moore researches his predecessor on the internet and gets 8 hits. 8!