- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Travellers' Bookshop (16 Oct 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1874472505
- ISBN-13: 978-1874472506
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 12.2 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 884,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1996 I was invited to write Desert Travels by the now defunct Travellers' Bookshop in Charing Cross, where I worked part time. It was a result of the popularity of my original home-produced guidebook, Desert Biking, which has evolved over the years into today's Adventure Motorcycling Handbook, now in its fifth edition - and also provided material for Sahara Overland - both also available on amazon.
The travelogue, Desert Travels - Motorcycle Journeys in the Sahara and West Africa is now finally available here and covers my first six desert biking trips, starting in 1981 with a clueless and subsequently aborted Sahara crossing on a ratty XT500 aged 21 - and winding up about a decade later with a long and fractious ride from Algeria to Mauritania via Timbuktu with 'Steve', before Algeria went down the pan in the early 1990s.
The travelogue, Desert Travels - Motorcycle Journeys in the Sahara and West Africa is now finally available here and covers my first six desert biking trips, starting in 1981 with a clueless and subsequently aborted Sahara crossing on a ratty XT500 aged 21 - and winding up about a decade later with a long and fractious ride from Algeria to Mauritania via Timbuktu with 'Steve', before Algeria went down the pan in the early 1990s.
But most of the book describes my original Sahara Motorcycle Tour of 1989 when I managed to scrape together half a dozen guys to follow me in a Landrover through the Algerian Sahara (so apart from the car, nothing's changed then!). As the back cover states - it was a tour from which only one rider returned still riding his bike...
The book is a paperback with some basic maps but you'll find 'Desert Travels; the Mis ing Pictures' on my adventure-motorcycling website.
One day I'll get around to D Travels II. There's certainly another book's worth of yarns to be spun. Enjoy the book and the pix.
Chris S
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Good story with a lot of examples on what not to do when crossing the sahara, and how to survive your mistakes ! A very honest account from a man who makes his living from travelling the desert.
A good travel story and a must read for anyone taking a vehicle to North Africa
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