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  • 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

  • Ubuntu

    One Woman's Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa

    by Heather Ellis ...
    As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu – the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one.At the age of twenty-eight, while sitting in a friend’s backyard in the remote mining township of Jabiru, Heather Ellis has a light-bulb moment: she is going to ride a motorcycle across Africa. The idea just feels right – no matter that she’s never done any long-distance motorcycle ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918

    by Heather Ellis ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image of the British ‘man of science’ and questions the status of the natural scientist as a modern ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire

    Edited by Dr Heather Ellis ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.The period between 1800 and 1920 was pivotal in the global history of ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Science, Technologies and Material Culture in the History of Education

    Edited by Heather Ellis ...
    Developed out of a 2015 conference of the History of Education Society, UK, this book explores the interconnections between the histories of science, technologies and material culture, and the history of education. The contributions express a shared concern over the extent to which the history of science and technology and the history of education are too frequently written about separately from ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • 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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  • Untamed Spirit

    Around the World on a Motorcycle

    by Doris Maron ...
    "It is my wish that this story will inspire you to live your dream, whatever that may be."In the summer of 2001, at fifty-three years old, Doris Maron sold everything she owned, except her motorcycle and a few personal belongings, to live a dream. On August 4 of that year, Maron left Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on her 750cc Honda Magna to begin her journey around the world. Over the next two years ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Red Tape and White Knuckles

    One Woman's Motorcycle Adventure Through Africa

    by Lois Pryce ...
    In Red Tape and White Knuckles, celebrated adventurer and author Lois Pryce shares the story of her 10,000 mile journey through the vast continent of Africa. Setting off from her home in London, Lois makes her way to the shores of Tunisia, the Sahara Desert, war-torn Angola, and the Congo basin before reaching her ultimate destination of Cape Town, South Africa. While some riders might insist on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Motorcycle Therapy

    A Canadian Adventure in Central America

    by Jeremy Kroeker ...
    From the Canadian Rockies to the Panamanian jungle, Motorcycle Therapy rumbles with comic adventure as two men, fleeing failed relationships, test the limits of their motorcycles and their friendship. Join the horn-honking, signal-flashing, wheelie-popping pair as they endure painful bee stings, painful snakebites and (when they talk to girls) painful humiliation. Even if you hate reading, ... Read more

    $5.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus