Lois on the Loose
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4.8 • 8 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America. Alone. Armed only with the Spanish words for 'caution' and 'cheese', Lois was rather under-prepared for multiple bear sightings, bribing her way through borders, spending a night in a Mexican brothel and crashing her bike in the wilds of Patagonia.
She most certainly got the adventure she craved, and her pulse-pounding, soul-searching adventure has already attracted fans worldwide - a weblog that she kept whilst on her travels was receiving more than two-thousand hits a day.
Her hilarious, brilliantly written travelog will appeal to anyone who's ever dreamt of jacking-it-all-in and running away to see the world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bored by her desk job at the BBC, Pryce decided to convert her travel\t\t daydreams into real-life adventure. At her local travel bookshop, she\t\t discovered a book called Jupiter's Travels\t\t by Ted Simon as well as a few handbooks on motorcycle adventuring, and she was\t\t hooked. She bought a small dirt bike, a versatile and affordable Yamaha XT225\t\t Serow, and decided she'd bike from Anchorage, Alaska, to the southernmost city\t\t of South America, Ushuaia, Argentina "almost 20,000 miles. In this engaging\t\t read, Pryce narrates the adventure. Local bikers helped the witty and sociable\t\t Pryce get her Serow fixed, strangers offered shelter or advice and various\t\t friends joined her, for better or worse. She rode through flaking dried mud and\t\t boulder-strewn donkey paths, through broiling desert heat and blinding Andean\t\t snows. Armchair travelers will delight in this funny, vivid account\t\t and "almost "wish they'd done it themselves. B&w photos throughout.\t\t
