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  • Around Iceland on Inspiration

    by Riaan Manser ...
    South Africa's best-known adventurer Riaan Manser takes on his toughest – and coldest - challenge ever, to kayak around Iceland accompanied by Dan Skinstad, who suffers from mild cerebral palsy.Confronted by icy seas, raging winter storms and logistical nightmares, the two adventurers overcome daunting obstacles, including coming to terms with how to work together as a team.Around Iceland on ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Around Madagascar On My Kayak

    by Riaan Manser ...
    In the last five years Riaan Manser has re-written the definition of tenacity and become the epitome of determination. Riaan rose to prominence when he became the first person to cycle around the entire perimeter of Africa. For over two years, he padalled a mammoth 37,000kms through 34 countries; some of which rank as the most dangerous places on Earth. It was a feat that earned him the title ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Around Africa On My Bicycle

    by Riaan Manser ...
    In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa. It took him two years, two months and fifteen days. He rode 36 500 kilometres through 34 different countries. In Around Africa on my Bicycle, Manser tells the story of this epic journey. It is a story of blood, sweat, toil and tears. It is a story of triumph and occassional disaster. Of nights ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My First African Adventure

    by Riaan Manser, Murray Williams, Chantal Tarling ...
    Illustrated by Martinus van Tee ...
    Series series My First ... Adventure
    THIS BOOK IS A CHILD'S FIRST TASTE OF THE MAGICAL CONTINENT!In My First African Adventure, Riaan Manser allows the reader to relive the toil, excitement and occasional terror of his journey - negotiating the Sahara and Libyan deserts, learning French, Portuguese and Arabic, eating monkey, rat and bat, standing in front of the pyramids, being awarded the freedom of the Red Sea in Egypt, feeding ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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  • Riding into The Sunrise - Recollections of A Bicycle Journey across Russia

    by Gregory Yeoman ...
    Spring 1993. 14 months earlier the USSR had collapsed and with Russia accessible once more Gregory Yeoman and his expedition companions set off on their bicycles to ride from the Baltic to the Pacific. Over 153 days they encountered wild landscapes, wild people, crumbling hotels and Siberia's two cheeses on an extraordinary adventure through a nation finding itself after 70 years of Communism. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The SolarCycle Diaries : "So, um, tell me again why we're cycling through the Sahara in June..."

    by Susie Wheeldon ...
    In 2010 Susie Wheeldon and Jamie Vining rolled back into London complete with stings, bites, leathery skin and thighs of steel. With their co-rider, Iain Henderson, they had set out nine months earlier on a 12,000 mile round the world bike ride, promoting solar power and being tracked using solar nanotechnology.Only, as Google maps and your thumb are not the most precise tools with which to plan a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riding with Reindeer

    A Bicycle Odyssey through Finland, Lapland and Arctic Norway

    by Robert M. Goldstein ...
    In the summer of 2007, Robert Goldstein departs Helsinki on a self-supported bicycle epic across Finland with the goal of pedaling to the Barents Sea. Aboard a folding bicycle towing a wagon, he weathers furious storms, survives a near-disastrous accident and obsesses whether he will be eaten by a bear as he makes his way through the remote forests of Eastern Finland. In sparsely populated Lapland ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bombay to Beijing by Bicycle

    by Russell McGilton ...
    "Congratulations," said Dr Chawla. "You are having the malaria."And so begins Russell McGilton's comic adventure as he attempts to cycle from Bombay to Beijing in the quest of writing his travel opus.Pedalling furiously for China, McGilton's tour de force rides the reader through an honest handlebar view on the absurdities and fragile wonders of travel from the saddle. He rides, he falls, he gets ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • The Trouble with Africa

    by Vic Guhrs ...
    German-born artist Vic Guhrs came to Africa at the age of twenty-two to fulfil his boyhood dream of a life in wild places among wild animals. He lived for twenty-five years in an isolated bush camp in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia and knows that, despite its paradoxes and its mysteries, he can never leave Africa. The trouble with Africa, he says, is that once it is in your blood, like malaria, it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Bicycle Reader

    Number 1: Summer 2012

    by Jack Thurston, Tim Dawson ...
    This is the first issue of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about cycling. Two thoughts inspired us to start this collection.The first is that there is a great deal of brilliant article and essay-length writing about cycling that remains inaccessible to most readers. Some of it languishes out of print. Other pieces appeared in publications read by only a tiny minority of ... Read more

    $3.72 CAD

  • The Man Who Cycled the Americas

    by Mark Beaumont ...
    In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an astonishing 81 days. His race against the clock took him through the toughest terrain and the most demanding of conditions. In 2009, Mark set out on his second ultra-endurance challenge. And this one would involve some very big mountains.The Man Who Cycled the Americas tells the story of a 15,000 mile expedition ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Bicycle Journey to the Bottom of the Americas

    Being a True Account of a Bike Adventure from Alaska

    by George J. Hawkins ...
    Remember when you were a kid and you got your first bicycle? After a few weeks of mastering the dynamics of balancing, steering, and pedaling, all at the same time hopefully, your father released his protective, steadying grip on the seat and you went wobbling off on your own. It was probably your very first taste of independence and freedom and you knew you liked that feeling very much. Few ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD