No Thru Road: Confessions of a Traveling Man
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (812 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0990645908 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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However, not being very happy as a diplomat, he tendered his resignation in 1973 and set off on his motorcycle to take a trip around the world. He was quite experienced with the art of motorcycling, having learned to ride when he was 15, buying his first one when he got his license at age 16, and taking his first long trip around Western Europe when he was 17. Clement Salvadori was raised and schooled mainly i
"rides for the sheer joy of touring" according to Pedro III Battistini. 100% Excelente ! Not just for riders, a book everyone wanting to know about places to go in this world should read it; non technical about bikes, a journal written for everyone, by a writer that, unlike other motorcycle travel journalist I have read, rides for the sheer joy of touring, knowing new places, meeting people, with an open and positive attitude about all experiences encountered.. Michael Torrusio said Haven't been there yet? Well hang on.. Just when you think you've pretty much done it --- at least if not all. then a good part of it you pick up Clements book and find you're back to square one.. Chris said Five Stars. Great tales of life on two wheels.
Or riding a bike to Pamplona, Spain, in 1960 in order to run with the bulls. Adventurous riders will thoroughly appreciate the book, as in the description of kick-starting a 500cc single - never easy to do - at 17,200 feet in the Tibetan Himalayas. Lots of adventures, lots of good reading, lots of photos and illustrations. This book promises excellent entertainment and a glimpse into life as a moto-journalist.. Or going up to Cape Tribulation in Australia's Queensland in 1974 when the only access was via a once-a-week ferry across the Daintree River. No Thru Road covers 30 different trips he has taken, to places like Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, since his first ride through western Europe in 1957. Activists who want to get on their motorcycles and ride down into Mexico's Copper Canyon will enjoy the book, as will the arm-chair traveler who is happy reading about traveling from Peru's Great Ica Desert over the Andes Mountains to the basin. Clement's adventures are arranged so the reader can open the book to any chapter, be it India, Nepal, the Sahara, New Zealand or Viet Nam, and not have to worry about following a thread. Moto-journalist Clement Salvadori has been riding motorcycles since the age of 15 and traveling all of his life, accumulating well over a million miles in the saddle across more than 70 countries on six continents. The stories are all original, though the subject may have appeared as a magazine
Seven years later he chose to go free-lance. While riding north from Panama in 1975 he stopped off at San Miguel de Allende in Mexico to sign up for a Master of Fine Arts degree (ABT) at the Instituto Allende, with the notion of learning how to earn a living by writing. He was quite experienced with the art of motorcycling, having learned to ride when he was 15, buying his first one when he got his license at age 16, and taking his first long trip around Western Europe when he was 17. He has published upwards of a thousand articles and five books. However, not being very happy as a diplomat, he tendered his resignation in 1973 and set off on his motorcycle to take a trip around the world. He accepted. In 1980 a motorcycle magazine in Laguna Beach, California, offered him a staff job. Being the age of the draft, he did his military service as a demolitions expert with the U.S. . College and army out of the way, he