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Did you really have in mind ZAMM as the "dreary hippy"?
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On yes. Hideous book.
Motorcycle book wise, Stealing Speed is good. About Ernst Degner and MZ and the defection in Japan.
I was also bought the SAS hand book. Probably highly useful if you ever need to infiltrate North Korea, but as something travel related it actually made me laugh. I would have left a review but the author can probably garrotte me with my own boot laces while I'm wearing them.
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I was also bought the SAS hand book. Probably highly useful if you ever need to infiltrate North Korea, but as something travel related it actually made me laugh. I would have left a review but the author can probably garrotte me with my own boot laces while I'm wearing them.
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Ha - the SAS handbook !!! I remember it well. My inlaws gave me a copy just as I was leaving on my last trip down to West Africa. I had a quick look through it on the boat and then used it page by page to start campfires. My review would be it burns well but it could have been a lot more useful if they'd printed it on softer paper. I'm not sure that survival tip was in it
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Only stops bullets and can be used to drive in tent pegs if you've still got chapters 1 to 16.
I think though I may have been alone in imagining John" lofty " Wiseman breaking into the Iranian Embassy wearing a pith helmet and humming whispering grass.
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On yes. Hideous book.
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I read it differently, twice.
The main themes of the book are:-
1. Quality; the nature of quality and the philosophy of why it is so difficult to achieve.
2. Education: as practiced in the USA all those years ago and now exported to the UK in more recent times and what an utter lack of quality exists therein.
3. Father-son bonding: covered in various guises throughout the chapters.
4. Motorcycle riding and maintenance: as per the title.
Some years later Persig wrote another book on the theme of morals (without a motorcycle theme as far as I know - I have not managed to read much of that book).
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I've read some great books but there's a few in that list that I've never heard of either!
Both Louis books, mondo enduro, Chris scott. Running with the moon is a different bag but I still like it. Nathans book about the trip from Sydney is another good read.
I'd love to get out more but for when I can't books and travel blogs keep me Going
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