Bike travel books , recommend any?

[Itchy]

Having just read:

Motorcycle diaries (which wasn't so much about motorcycles)

Mondo Enduro (Very good)

LWR (found at a charity shop for 25p) (so so)

LWD (given to me as a gift last year) (so so)

I'm about 1/3 of the way through Jupiters Travels...... (good so far)

Anybody else care to recommend me some books to add to my collection and for my amusement ? are Ted Simon's sequels and midquals as good?.

Adventure Motorcycling Handbook (Trailblazer) by Chris Scott is already on its way, though this is more a technical book than anything else.

There are some others recommended by Amazon by Lois Pryce and Geoff Hill "Running with the Moon" Jonny Bealby , any others I've missed on that list?...

I'm don't particularly care for the how to ride the perfect line type books or road craft books etc.

Sure sure I'm dreaming of it currently but intend to put pen to BCF for a big trip mid 2009.

Any thoughts?

Ta
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[AngelGrinder]

https://www.nicksanders.com/publications.htm

Havn't read any of the books, I have the Parallel world one, along with the DVD's, and from a quick flick view of the book, it looks good + lots of pictures.

DVD seems pretty good also
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[Charlie]

Mum and Dad recommendations:

Into Africa by Sam Manicom (ISBN: 978-0-9556573-1-3); he also does 'Under Asian Skies'

Mum thinks there better than Lois Pryce, although she said she enjoyed them too.
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[NickD]

I enjoyed 'Lois on the Loose' by Lois Pryce.

It's nothing ground breaking, if you've read stuff like 'Jupiter', but it's well written and good tale.
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[TheDonUK]

Is Mondo enduro any good?

Also whats Jupiters Travels like?

Thinking about finding both somewhere cheaply...
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[Pernig]

Slightly off-topic but I've just started reading Charley Boorman's By Any Means. Some of the chapters are about bikes. Seems to be a good read so far, first impressions are that it's less beneficial knowledge-wise than say the Adventure Motorcycling Handbook or Jupiter's Travels. I'll let you know what I think.

Also I would really recommend Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. Not so much about the particulars or technical details, more about the meaning of it all. It's a bit deep in places, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
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[sagalout]

I'm about halfway through Return to Jupiter which I'm really enjoying. He's a better writer compared to the first book, and it's interesting to read about the differences he sees in the world throughout his trip.
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[Mr Nice Guy]

This one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uneasy-Rider-Travels-Through-Mid-life/dp/0091922682/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228345193&sr=8-1


It's a good laugh, and somewhat inspiring.
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[G]

Have you read Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance?
An obvious choice, though I haven't been that impressed (haven't finished it yet).

I prefer just reading the threads on advrider.

[Al]

[Itchy]

[Itchy]

Hold on I see something wrong here with Lois Pryce:

On the back of Lois on the Loose it says:

She rode her motorcycle from the Northernmost corner of Alaska to the southern most tip of South America....

and yet

https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BWsdPkNxaA4

Shows her riding from a distance, surely her technique for filming isn't dumping a camera somewhere riding up to it and past it ?.
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[Tango675]

"These are the days that must happen to you" by Dan Walsh
ISBN 978-1-846-05310-8

Am about half way through it... Its a very good read
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[NickD]

[Itchy]

[steppen22]

I was going to start a thread about this. Thanks Itchy.

At tyhe moment, I'm reading Long Way Round. Charity store - don't think I would have bothered with it otherwise, having seen the series.

This is the first travel bike book that I've read, so I can't really compare it to the genre.

It's an enjoyable enough read, and I'm making light work of it. The thing I don't like about it- and the series, though - is that it seems a little too polished, the trip does. After all, most tourers don't have a production team behind them organising things. Tghis isn't critisising the riders, I'm just saying the book isn't very "raw" and if I was touring, I don't think it would have that much relevance to my plans, etc: i.e I couldn;t ask BMW for a bike and spare parts.
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