After enraging England (writing as Bill Murphy) in "Home Truths", Bill Lumley is back in the first of the "Reluctant Traveller" series. Forced to make good on a drunken promise to travel to Ethiopia to document a journey to the pinnacle of the lost mountain of Wehni, Lumley sets about annoying his mate Gar, his fellow travellers, and a huge number of Ethiopians. As he pursues his quest to avoid all work, any strenuous activity and paying for booze, he plots escape routes back his favourite Bethnal Green watering hole, only to be thwarted at every turn.