Short Way Up: A Classic Ride Through Southern Africa - 5,000 Solo Miles on a 1950s Ariel

by Steve Wilson

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No film crew, no 'fixers' for the borders, no 4WD back-up - in fact no back-up at all. The only participants on this 5,000-mile journey were a simple 55-year-old Ariel motorcycle and its even older and arguably even simpler rider. In this moving account the author chronicles the entire experience: bike preparation, organisation, mechanical mayhem, personal discovery and - one of the reasons for the trip - raising over GBP2,000 for a small school in Kawaza, Zambia.
  • ISBN10 0857333429
  • ISBN13 9780857333421
  • Publish Date 1 October 2012 (first published 26 May 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Haynes Publishing Group
  • Imprint J H Haynes & Co Ltd
  • Format eBook
  • Language English