As an avid reader of your books, most of them more than once, I'd like to say that the appearance of your latest offering is very welcome. One question I have in an attempt to secure myself a copy of it: Is there somewhere you'd like to visit or something you'd like to do, knowing it will probably always be just out of reach?

I'm an English teacher in Hong Kong so quite when the book will be available here is a matter of speculation. However, I look forward to reading it and maybe even hearing from you in reply to this email.

Yours sincerely,
Mat Lloyd

Tim: Dear Mat,

You may be able to purchase my new book in Hong Kong through my British publisher, 4th Estate Press, which, I think, does distribute to Hong Kong. The British edition is titled Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered, not Pass the Butterworms.

As for a place just out of reach, well, I'd like to float the length of the Euphrates River, from the whitewater sections in the mountains of Turkey, down through Syria, and then through Iraq. This may be out of reach — obvious political reasons — for some time. (But I waited 18 years to get into Mongolia.)

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