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Motorcycle Messengers
Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride
2015
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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 of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Read a story by the fire and discover your new favourite motorcycle travel writer.Lois Pryce exploits her dead grandmother and an imaginary husband to access the Congo.Neil Peart finds his rhythm through the curves of North Carolina.Paddy Tyson numbs his fear of crocodiles with a few ...
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Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle books - indeed, one of the greatest travel books - ever written.In 2001, at the age of 69, Ted Simon decided to retrace his journey, and DREAMING OF JUPITER is the result. It took him ...
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Motorcycle Messengers 2
Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride
2019
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Motorcycle Messengers 2 is another collection of stories from some of the leading writers in the motorcycle travel genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Rekindle memories of your own trips, find inspiration for new rides, or learn a few lessons from those who have done things the hard way. Above all, enjoy the journey.Charley Boorman expounds on the benefits of motorcycle travel in his foreword.Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent side...
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Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the worldThe book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way RoundIn the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. Through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune, he travelled into the depths of fear and reached the heights of euphoria.
RM 45.49
Environmental Risk Assessment
A Toxicological Approach
2019
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The purpose of risk assessment is to support science-based decisions about how to solve complex societal problems. Indeed, the problems humankind faces in the 21st century have many social, political, and technical complexities. Environmental risk assessment in particular is of increasing importance as health and safety regulations grow and become more complicated.Environmental Risk Assessment: A Toxicological Approach, 2nd Edition looks at various factors relating...
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Rolling Through The Isles
A Journey Back Down the Roads that led to Jupiter
2012
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From the bestselling author of Jupiter's Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining and inspiring new journey round Britain.Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted returns to the British Isles to rediscover the country of his youth. The result is a revealing portrait of modern Britain and a witty and affectionate journey back to the past, when Ted would hitchhike across the country visiting friends (and girlfriends).He returns ...
RM 53.29
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- Rupert Degas
Unabridged
16 hours 51 min
2015
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On 6 October 1973 Ted Simon knew there was no going back. He loaded up his 500cc Triumph Tiger in the pouring rain and said goodbye to London. Over four years he rode 64,000 miles round the world. Breakdowns, revolutions, war, a spell in prison, and a Californian commune were all part of his experience, which was coloured variously by utter despair and unimaginable joy. He was treated as a spy, a god, a welcome stranger and a curiosity. The extraordinary trip became a journey into his own ...
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Don't Boil The Canary
...and other words of wisdom gleaned from my interrupted life.
Unabridged
14 hours 6 min
2023
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From the time Ted Simon set off around the world on his Triumph, at the age of 42, his life has been, literally, an open book. In everything he has written since that journey began no-one has been more forthcoming about his life, his thoughts and feelings, than Ted. Yet almost nothing is known about his life before that journey.So that his own children – one son, two grandsons – would have a better idea of who he is or was, he began to write an account which, inevitably, grew into ...
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- Rupert Degas
Unabridged
16 hours 30 min
2018
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When Ted Simon rode 64,000 miles round the world on his 500c Triumph Tiger, he inspired thousands of motorcyclists to begin their own adventures, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who chronicled their travels in Long Way Round. Nearly 30 years later, Ted Simon took to the road again to retrace the epic journey he made in his 40s. He meets up with old friends and acquaintances, revisits old landmarks and locations, and rediscovers himself, as well as the world, along the way. Dre...
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