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Book club edition, so this is the trade paperback size.
It's also a bit battered - possibly because of the adventures it had been on before I found it.
You see, I'd just come back from a brilliant holiday in the US, and on getting off the plane at Heathrow, I was desperate for the toilet. I headed into the ones at the bottom of the disembarkation ramp, rather than wait ages in the queue at those before customs, and then have to queue again to get back into the UK officially.
And there, next to the sinks, was this slightly battered copy of a book I'd been eyeing up in the deaprture lounge bookshops before I flew out two weeks earlier.
I was the only one in the loos, and when I'd flushed and came out to rinse my hands it was still there. It must have been meant!
So I nabbed it.

As it's already showing signs of major wear, I'll be releasing this, with its globe-trekking adventure untold but just as much a part of the pages as the literary treasure-island adventure, in a safe place.