A Short Ride in the Jungle - Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

A Short Ride in the Jungle

The Ho Chi Minh Trail by Motorcycle
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2014
Summersdale Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84953-543-4 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
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Antonia sets out on a solo hair-raising motorbike mission down the remnants of the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Battling inhospitable terrain and multiple breakdowns, the story of her brave journey is thrilling and poignant: a unique insight into a little known face of Southeast Asia
'For the first time in my life I felt that death was a possibility; a stupid, pointless, lonely death on the aptly named Mondulkiri Death Highway.'



The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military engineering in history. But since the end of the Vietnam War much of this vast transport network has been reclaimed by jungle, while remaining sections are littered with a deadly legacy of unexploded bombs. For Antonia, a veteran of ridiculous adventures in unfeasible vehicles, the chance to explore the Trail before it's lost forever was a personal challenge she couldn't ignore - yet it would sometimes be a terrifying journey.



Setting out from Hanoi on an ageing Honda Cub, she spent the next two months riding 2000 miles through the mountains and jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Battling inhospitable terrain and multiple breakdowns, her experiences ranged from the touching to the hilarious, meeting former American fighter pilots, tribal chiefs, illegal loggers and bomb disposal experts.



The story of her brave journey is thrilling and poignant: a unique insight into a little known face of Southeast Asia.

Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent, a veteran of ridiculous adventures in unfeasible vehicles, is co-author of the successful Tuk-Tuk to the Road. Her articles have appeared in Wanderlust, The Guardian, Adventure Journal (USA), Verge (Canada) and Motorcycle Monthly, and she's also a regular speaker on the adventure travel circuit, speaking at the RGS, Adventure Travel Show and Wilderness Lectures.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.4.2014
Zusatzinfo Colour photographs
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 270 g
Themenwelt Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Auto / Motorrad
Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
ISBN-10 1-84953-543-4 / 1849535434
ISBN-13 978-1-84953-543-4 / 9781849535434
Zustand Neuware
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