Sierra Leone – Ruth Budge (issue 31)
We paused at the muddy intersection. To our left, obscured by tangled undergrowth, was a tiny unmarked track which would take us deep into Sierra…
Lockdown in Uganda!
Travellers around the world have been stopped in their tracks by Covid-19, but if you couldn’t get back to your home nation, what’s it like…
‘The Japanese-speaking curtain maker’ by Spencer Conway
It’s not a title you might expect for a book about a circumnavigation of the African continent, but you quickly establish that Spencer Conway is…
‘Three-wheeling through Africa’ by James C Wilson
A fantastic read, written in a tremendously energetic style, about a remarkable journey. There aren’t the superlatives available to do this adventure justice, and certainly…
Women Riders World Relay 2019 begins!
Ladies get set… three, two, one GO! They’re finally off! Seven months of planning, organising, rounding up and nearly 15,000 women later, the first female…
AsSeenFromTheSidecar returns!
After 455 days on the road, covering 34,000 miles, Reece Gilkes and Matt Bishop returned to the UK on 19th January. The young Banbury pair…
DRC – Stergios Gogos (Issue 23)
Democratic Republic of the Congo “We´ll go via Ilebo!” ordered Francis, probably fed up with our ceaseless yapping about what route we should take. The…
Simon and Lisa Thomas returning to Africa
Simon and Lisa Thomas have been regular contributors to Overland magazine and were among the inspiring presenters at this year’s Overland Event. In December they’ll…
‘Rice and Dirt’ by Alexandra Fefopoulou and Stergios Gogos
I was very lucky to get an advance copy of the English language manuscript for this book, first published in 2017 in Greek only. That…
‘Morocco Overland (3rd edition)’ by Chris Scott
I was under the misconception that this would be an easy book to review. It’s a guidebook after all, not a story, so if time…
Angola – Steph Jeavons (issue 21)
It was hard to see the woman clearly behind the thick Perspex, as my own refection was getting in the way, my face merging with…
‘With 14hp Through Africa’ by Josef Bohmer
DVD ‘With 14 horsepower through Afrika’ is a phenomenal insight into life and overland travel in the 1930s. This DVD actually includes two films by…
‘There are no Fat People in Morocco’ by Lawrence Bransby
At last – a print version of Lawrence Bransby’s work. For too long his many motorcycle travel titles have been kindle only. Sadly, the typesetting…
Ivory Coast – Luke Gelmi (Issue 19)
The latest intel is that I’m probably going to be shot. With a gun… Apparently, it’s a mess over on the other side of the…
Illuminating Nigeria
Nigeria, with 170 million inhabitants, is Africa’s most populous country. It still maintains the borders the British decreed in 1914 when it was one of…
Nigeria – Stergios Gogos (Issue 18)
From the moment we set foot in Nigeria, we realized that things were tricky. The police immediately started asking for a “contribution” to their work,…
‘Ubuntu’ by Heather Ellis
If the essence of a good travel book is one that informs and enthrals, engages and excites – though not melodramatically – and is written…
‘Full Circle’ by Richard and Mopsa English
Good accounts of adventurous travel should be timeless. Well written, they create their own contemporary context within which they never age. They remain valid and…
‘African Motorcycle Diaries’ by Spencer Conway DVD
Narration in TV travel series seems to have become obligatory. Sometimes it works, filling gaps, expanding ideas, providing background; the glue that bonds disparate scenes…
UPoA finalists chosen!
After some tough decision-making and a terrific selection weekend, the participants in the Touratech project “United People of Adventure” have now been decided. The six…