Lois Pryce

Broschiertes Buch

Red Tape and White Knuckles

One Woman's Motorcycle Adventure through Africa

Beschreibung

Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce put on her sparkly crash helmet, armed herself with maps and a baffling array of visas, and got on her bike. Destination: Cape Town - and the small matter of tackling the Sahara, war-torn Angola and the Congo Basin along the way. This book tells a tale about following your dreams.

Autor

Torn between the career paths of two illustrious relatives, Max Born, the Nobel Prize Winner in Physics and his granddaughter, Olivia Newton-John, Lois Pryce abandoned her interest in Quantum Theory at the age of 16, left school and spent the next couple of years as a carrot picker, painter and decorator and failing an audition as a kiss-o-gram before bowing to the inevitable and going into rock 'n roll. After various underpaid jobs in record shops and as a product manager in the Beeb, she decided to jack it all in and ride her trail bike from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Her on-line diary of her journey became a cult hit and led to her first book, Lois on the Loose. When not on her bike she is at home on her houseboat with husband Austin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arrow / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 595205
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780099513599
• ISBN-10: 0099513595
• Artikelnr.: 25413578

Rezensionen

Lois Pryce knows what it takes to be a fun, fearless female. She rode solo from London to Cape Town, with the barest of essentials Cosmopolitan