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African Brew Ha Ha: A Motorcycle Quest from Lancashire to Cape Town
Author(s): Alan Whelan (Author)
- Publisher: Summersdale
- Publication Date: 6 April 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849530440
- ISBN-13: 9781849530446
Book Description
Tea-drinking is a ritual that binds people together. Alan Whelan was on a unique quest: to find the people at the hidden heart of Africa… and sit down for a nice cup of tea with them. On the 14,000-mile solo journey through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and all the way to Cape Town across deserts and the toughest roads imaginable, he met sporting legends and ministers, peacekeepers and outlaws, and countless people who shared their last morsel of food with him.
Armed with little more than blind optimism, he experienced a jaw-dropping ride. Uplifting, insightful and funny, this is the story of one man’s determination through the most physically and emotionally challenging five months of his life.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`extraordinary one-man mission… with no shortage of adventures along the way… the most physically and emotionally challenging months of his life’
— The Blackpool Gazette, 24th March 2010
`thoroughly enjoyed… His writing ability is way above the norm… recommend African Brew Ha-Ha to anyone with the travel gene.’
— Adventure Travel OnLine, 19th April 2010
`an amazing 14,000-mile African motorbiking odyssey – to prove the power of a nice cup of tea can unite the world.’
— Lancashire Evening Post, 27th March 2010
`Mr Whelan… sense of adventure verges on insanity… with a keen, predominantly optimistic eye, Whelan portrays his encounters poignantly.’ — Real Travel, May 2010
He described his adventures and mishaps with a disarming honesty… fresh insights into life in some of Africa’s forgotten corners
–The Lancashire Writers’ Hub website, 10th January 2011
`… very entertaining and difficult to put down… highly recommended.’ –Bikersespana.com, 20 Feb 2011
‘Alan captures Africa to a `T’ – the joy and heartache, the despair and exhilaration, the moments of sheer insanity.’ –petermoore.net, 5 April 2010
`This is a wonderful book that is written from hard-won and well-lived experience; I cannot recommend it highly enough’
–arrse.co.uk
