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A Fast Bike to Byzantium
- The Petrolhead Travelogues, Book 1
- Narrated by: Andy C Wareing
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
The year is 1986. The destination is Istanbul. No smartphones, no GPS, no Google maps, and not an ounce of common sense.
Dead horses, armed border guards and furious Slavs stand in the way. Join Andy on his battered old Suzuki GS1000G as we cross Europe, and ride together through the Iron Curtain to reach the very edge of Asia. Filled with adventure and humor, poignant and accidentally informative, this true-life story tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
Can Andy prevail and avoid a Hungarian prison cell and a Yugoslavian beating, to finally reach the sounds and scents of the ancient heart of the Byzantium empire.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-06-24
enjoyable account
I've read other reviews that describe this book as mundane, but it's far from that. it's a tale of a journey that could only have happened at a particular time and a particular circumstance, yes it's witnessing the every day events of what that was like, but that is the very charm of the story. I'm a couple of years younger than the narrator and I feel the time he describes. it's a world that has changed and an everyday adventure that perhaps isn't possible now and all the more entertaining to listen to
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-24
don't bother
it's vacuous. Description of events that are mundane, things that happened with no importance attached to them. But at the same time trying to make them part of the story.
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