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Journey to ‘the grimmest place in the world’

End-to-Enders must cycle through the worst of Britain as well as the best to arrive at the deeply anticlimactic John o’Groats, Paul Jones discovers

Paul Jones cycling from Land’s End to John o’Groats. Credit: Property of Paul Jones
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  • End to End: The Land’s End to John o’Groats Cycling Record

    Paul Jones

    Little, Brown, pp. 320, £16

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