!! WIN Chris Scott’s Desert Rider’s DVD !!
To win a copy of this just ‘re-released’ DVD by the man who coined the phrase ‘Adventure Motorcycling’ just write to competition@overlandmag.com and put the…
Chris Scott’s Desert Riders DVD
Chris Scott’s film about a team effort back in 2003 to reach the Tierry Sabine ‘lost tree’ memorial in northern Niger by bike, has at…
Madagascar or bust!
Motorcycle tour on Madagascar: Adventure calling. The twelve finalists for the Touratech project “United People of Adventure” have been selected, including mate of the Overland…
‘Left beyond the horizon’ by Christopher Many
3 years travelling on a motorbike; a further 8 years RTW using an old Land Rover and now currently back on the road with his…
Morocco – Lawrence Bransby (Issue 11)
For a while, the tracks we had been following across a stony, desert plain in the south of Morocco had been getting disturbingly indistinct, until…
DRC – Spencer Conway (Issue 13)
In Luanda, the capital, I once again found the Angolan people to be welcoming and had no problem wandering out at night to experience what…
‘Jupiter’s Travels’ read by Rupert Degas
Few titles are capable of encapsulating the essence of overlanding by motorcycle, but I am yet to discover one that encompasses everything about it –…
‘One More Day Everywhere’ by Glen Heggstad
… a moving and immensely enjoyable account of a trip through Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East aboard an F650 Dakar.
‘Empire Road’ by Alan Whelan
Alan Whelan has an ability to convey experiences and encounters in an easy descriptive style. His observations about people and places sit well alongside historical…
‘Road to Mali’ by Craig Carey-Clinch
This is an unusual book, part memoir charting the development of the author’s life in motorcycling and part homage to one of his contemporaries –…
Algeria – Chris Scott (Issue 12)
The three of us reigned in our XRLs, cut the engines and stared ahead. Around us the horizon was a flat 360° sweep – sky…
Motorcycle Messengers – new story collection
MOTORCYCLE MESSENGERS is a collection of travel stories from some of the leading writers in the genre … plus a few people you’ve never heard…
Cameroon – Pat Garrod (Issue 10)
…The army were organising a convoy. No vehicle was to leave without it. At first the convoy seemed as confused and disorganised as any we…
‘Desert Travels’ by Chris Scott
There are few people who have chosen to immerse themselves in the Sahara quite like Chris Scott
Tunisia – Issa Breibish (Issue 8)
A few days before our overnight ferry from Italy, riots erupt in the streets of Tunis.
‘Bearback. The world overland’ by Dr Pat Garrod
2 doctors, 1 motorcycle and a remarkable 4 year journey around the world.
Win tickets to the London Adventure Travel show and meet Chris Scott
London’s Olympia is again host to the Adventure Travel Show which is happening this January 25th and 26th. Chris Scott, the man behind the Adventure…
Ted Simon’s new coffee table book
We will have a few copies of Ted Simon’s new book ‘Jupiter’s Travels In Camera‘ available at the Motorcycle Live Show. This glorious Hard-backed full-colour…
‘Gone riding’ by Dom Giles
At 324 pages, this book feels neither longwinded, nor the writing rushed.
‘Triumph Around the World’ by Robbie Marshall
‘Triumph around the World’ could dispassionately (and errantly) be dismissed as the manifestation of a middle class, mid-life crisis.