‘Dirty Dining’ by Lisa Thomas
Take a lifelong passion for cooking, oodles of imagination, and the desire to make adventure taste better. Mix with delicious recipes from every continent, useful…
‘Motorcycle Memoirs’ by Geneva Pryce-Jones
Few travel books illustrate so absolutely the neurosis and insecurities of an author. It would be too easy to simply say that ‘Motorcycle Memoirs’ is…
‘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…
‘From Estonia With Love’ by Margus and Kariina Sootla
Three days after their wedding in 2008 this couple loaded their aged R1100GS and set off from Estonia. With 80,000kms on the clock already it…
‘Revolutionary Ride’ by Lois Pryce
Being on the road in search of the real Iran is something many of us crave. Can it really be a country of pure evil,…
‘No Thru Road’ by Clement Salvadori
In ‘No Thru Road’, veteran American motorcycle journalist, Clement Salvadori offers a selection of thirty stories about two-wheeled journeys he’s made over the course of…
‘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…
‘Southern Escapades’ by Zoe Cano
You might well be familiar with Zoë Cano; the well-travelled Brit with a penchant for Triumph’s Bonneville twins, has been a regular feature at bike…
‘Beads in the Headlight’ by Isabel Dyson
This book takes you on a wonderful trip around, up, down and sideways through the Americas. Isabel’s writing is light-hearted and flowing with wonderful account…
‘Three Harleys, Three Aussies, One American Dream’ by Stephen W Starling
Never judge a book by its cover. Or title. You’d run the risk of doing yourself a terrible disservice if you were to do so…
‘Keep Moving. Tokyo to Cape Town by motorbike’ by Monica Joseph
A year on the road began when Monica Joseph and her husband Simon Rosentool set-off from their home in Australia to travel the ancient Silk…
‘When the Road Ends’ by Dylan Samarawickrama
Quite probably book of the year. This is a beautifully written account of a GS-mounted global odyssey which barely mentions any of the route. Instead,…
‘Everything starts with a dream’ by Weronika Kwapisz
Two young Polish women climb aboard a pair of economical Suzuki 125 VanVans and set off around mainland Europe to expose themselves to the people,…
‘Beyond Bucharest’ by Bob Goddard
This is Bob Goddard’s second book and it recounts a month’s exploits on the roads of Europe aboard a Honda Varadero. He rides with his…
Adventure Motorcycling Handbook (7th Edition) by Chris Scott
AMH has undergone another update but remains an essential book for the shelf of any rider with even a modicum of wanderlust. Now 25 years…
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…
‘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…
‘Don’t Think Ride’ by Nathan and Sarah Millward
It is not extreme adventure, but does feature a short section on how to get married in Las Vegas, and that is!
‘Notes from the Road volume IV’ by Derek Mansfield
Just occasionally a book arrives on the motorcycle travel scene that is different, brave, sure to cause controversy and perhaps be forever known as ‘marmite’….