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  • Lone Rider

    The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

    by Elspeth Beard ...
    In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6.Reeling from a recent breakup and with only limited savings from her pub job, a tent, a few clothes and some tools, all packed on the back of her bike, she was determined to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • In Clancy's Boots: The Greatest Ever Round-the-World Motorbike Adventure, Motorbike Adventures 4

    by Geoff Hill ...
    In 1912, Carl Stearns Clancy undertook the longest, most difficult and most perilous journey ever attempted on a motorcycle. By June 1913 he had made history, becoming the first person ever to travel round the world on a motorbike. A century on, bestselling author and biker Geoff Hill recreates Clancy’s historic journey and ends up on the road trip of a lifetime. Following the same route, and with ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreaming Of Jupiter

    by Ted Simon ...
    Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle books - indeed, one of the greatest travel books - ever written.In 2001, at the age of 69, Ted ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • African Brew Ha-Ha

    by Alan Whelan ...
    Tea-drinking is a ritual that binds people together. Alan Whelan was on a unique quest: to find the people at the hidden heart of Africa... and sit down for a nice cup of tea with them. On the 14,000-mile solo motorcycle journey through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and all the way to Cape Town across deserts and the toughest roads imaginable, he met sporting legends and ministers, peacekeepers and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motorcycle Messengers 2

    Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride

    by Jeremy Kroeker, Charley Boorman, Lois Pryce, Ted Simon, Ian Brown, Carla King, Billy Ward, Sam Manicom, Mark Richardson, Paddy Tyson, Chris Scott, Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent, Ed March, Allan Karl, Simon Thomas, Lisa Morris ...
    Series Book 2 - Motorcycle Messengers
    Motorcycle Messengers 2 is another collection of stories from some of the leading writers in the motorcycle travel genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Rekindle memories of your own trips, find inspiration for new rides, or learn a few lessons from those who have done things the hard way. Above all, enjoy the journey.Charley Boorman expounds on ... Read more

    $5.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motorcycle Messengers

    Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride

    by Jeremy Kroeker, Ted Simon, Lois Pryce ...
    Motorcycle Messengers is a collection of travel stories from some of the leading writers in the genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Read a story by the fire and discover your new favourite motorcycle travel writer.Lois Pryce exploits her dead grandmother and an imaginary husband to access the Congo.Neil Peart finds his rhythm through the curves ... Read more

    $5.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • TIMELESS ON THE SILK ROAD

    An Odyssey From London To Hanoi

    by Heather Ellis ...
    Believing this is her last adventure, her one last search for meaning, Heather’s journey ultimately becomes one of destiny. Infused with a deep spiritual power, it is also a story that leaves the reader considering their own ‘time less’ journey called life.After riding her motorcycle across Africa, Heather Ellis is diagnosed with HIV in London. She is thirty years old and is given five years to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten For The Road -- Motorcycle, Travel and Adventure Stories

    Ten For The Road, #1

    by Brian R. Salisbury ...
    Series Book 1 - Ten For The Road
    Ten for the Road gives you a mix of travel and adventure stories and observations drawn from my many years of motorcycle jaunts throughout the United States and Canada to popular destinations and rides down roads less traveled.Even if you don't ride a motorcycle, you'll finds plenty of travel information, adventure stories and lots more to enjoy in this book.Experience with me…Visit Woodstock ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Way to Go: Two of the World’s Great Motorcycle Journeys

    by Geoff Hill ...
    Way to Go brings together two epic motorcycle journeys, from Delhi to Belfast on a Royal Enfield, and from Chicago to LA on a Harley-Davidson.A thoughtful, hilarious, off-beat travelogue by award-winning journalist Geoff Hill.What the critics say about Geoff Hill’s travel writing‘Shift your arse Kerouac, Geoff Hill’s on the road. Faster, funnier, and still alive.’Colin Bateman‘…a distinctive brand ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Gobblers Knob: From Chile to Alaska on a motorbike

    by Geoff Hill ...
    ‘At 16,500 miles it was the world’s longest road: a road on which travellers faced being kidnapped and murdered by Colombian drug barons, buried under Peruvian avalanches, drowned by the Guatemalan rainy season, fleeced by eight-year-old Ecuadorean border touts, driven mad by blackflies in the Yukon, eaten by Alaskan grizzlies and, worst of all, limited to a glass of Chardonnay a day in California ... Read more

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  • Fernweh: A Trans Continental Motorcycle Adventure

    by Sherrie McCarthy ...
    A motorcycle adventure through Europe, Russia, Asia and South America. Take a seat in a Russian banya, a Mongolian ger, or a campfire in the deserted pampas. Ride with the author through icy deserts, over dizzying mountain passes, through swamps and endless forests. Experience the driest desert as well as the deepest lake in the world. And more important than the places, meet the people that make ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alaska by Motorcycle - are you sure you know what you are doing?

    Adventures of Airborne Andy, #1

    by Airborne Andy ...
    Series Book 1 - Adventures of Airborne Andy
    11,260 miles, 25 days, 5 bears, 4 tires, 3 close encounters, 2 oil changes, 2x out of gas, 1 crash, 1 fire, 1 blizzard, 1 dog fight, 1 thousand mile day, and 1 conversation with God! "Alaska by Motorcycle – are you sure you know what you are doing?" is the story of one man's experience braving the unknown on a motorcycle journey into the remote regions of the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and ... Read more

    $3.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus