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“miles morland”

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  • The Hopeless Biker

    Who Went Twice Around the World

    by Miles Morland ...
    "I don't know if Miles is brilliant or mad to do what he has done, possibly both, but he had a lot of fun along the way and so did I." Giles Foden, author of the Last King of Scotland. From Sunday Times bestseller Miles Morland comes a brilliant, life-affirming and audacious travel memoir. 'A beautiful, profound and funny book about a very brave man' Bryan Appleyard 'You don't have to be a biker ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France

    by Miles Morland ...
    At the age of 45 Miles Morland resigned from his highly paid job as head of the UK division of a major American bank and went for a walk with his wife in France. Neither of them was used to walking further than the distance between a restaurant and a waiting taxi. They walked from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 350 miles through the foothills of the Pyrenees, staying in small country inns and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cobra in the Bath

    Adventures in Less Travelled Lands

    by Miles Morland ...
    Miles Morland is an adventurer. He was born in India to a naval father and a dangerously glamorous mother. When his parents divorced, Miles followed his mother to Tehran, which they had to leave in a hurry, and on to Baghdad, which they also had to leave in a hurry after the 1958 revolution. His early years were filled with desert journeys, riots, perilous near-misses, and adventures worthy of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Hopeless Biker

    Who Went Twice Around the World

    by Miles Morland ...
    Narrated by Clive Hayward ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    From Sunday Times bestseller Miles Morland comes a brilliant, life-affirming and audacious travel memoir.Having never ridden a motorbike at night, in rain, or on motorways, not knowing the difference between a carburettor and a spark plug, Miles Morland set out to ride across newly post-communist Europe to Istanbul. Somehow, he survived gales in France, rioting miners in Romania, homicidal truck ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    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

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  • Irresponsible Traveller: Tales of scrapes and narrow escapes

    by Ben Fogle, Michael Palin, Jonathan Scott, Hilary Bradt, Simon King, Simon Calder ...
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  • The Long and Whining Road

    A man and a van, a wife and three kids, and their round-the-world road trip as the world's worst Beatles tribute band.

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  • Lonely Planet Epic Drives of the World

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  • To Oldly Go: Tales of Intrepid Travel by the Over-60s

    by Hilary Bradt ...
    A brand new collection of remarkable travel tales from 'Silver Travellers'. Dervla Murphy travelling in Cuba at the age of 74, Matthew Parris swimming the Thames at 60, and Colin Thubron climbing the last stronghold of the Assassins in his 60s are among the writers recounting their adventures, often defying expectations - and the odds - and going outside their comfort zone to take a less-travelled ... Read more

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    After two months on board a Russian container ship sailing 15,000 miles across the world, Josie finally arrives in New Zealand with her bike. Over the next nine months she cycles 10,000 kilometres all over North and South Islands while experiencing the wettest, windiest and stormiest year on record. During this time Josie was spat at, shouted at, honked at, and both run off and blown off the road. ... Read more

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