Adventure Motorcycling Handbook: A Route & Planning Guide - Asia, Africa & Latin America: 11 selected trails including 1- to 2-day hikes and The Laugavegur Trek

Projecting macro issues as major while crossing india.. author has only showed one sided view and.. also a deliberate effort to portraite india as super underdeveloped.

Pros:Very detailed info on adv riding in the AMZ - Adv Motorcycling Zone - of South America, Asia and Africa.Superb fault finding notes for every single issue that can occur on the road with the bike or the rider including health, culture, even booze.Personal anecdotes bring rich flavour to the text along with wry humour.Huge number of internet links for additional information on related topics.Con: A completely anti India book.Extremely biased, typical colonial white man's description of India with a patronising, condescending and dismissive attitude in general.Totally out of date info about traffic conditions. The picture painted of the 60s and early 70s but this has no place in the 2020 edition. I had to keep going back to the copyright info page to verify and re-verify that this WAS the 2020 edition. Obviously, a shoddy copy and paste from the first edition job. That is really shabby yellow journalism.While all South American and African countries mentioned have had or are having massive unrest, almost chaotic and anarchic civil conditions even today, not one, not a single mention of this in the book. And then, no comparison of these with India and the relative complete safety of India. Nasty, completely inaccurate and utterly unjustified comment on Indian law enforcement agencies and more insultingly, on the Indian judiciary. I think I'll send a copy to the Honourable Chief Justice of India, with the relevant portions highlighted and ask him to take suo moto notice.Goes on and on about the need to observe cultural mores in West Asia - hijab, chador etc - but nothing about doing the same in India. Or that, in the 7th and 8th century mediaeval laws prevalent in these countries, infringement of cultural mores will mean being whipped at best or beheaded at worst. While in India, it'll mean a knowing shake of the head ( foreigner, how will she/he know our culture), an amused reprimand from the law and questions about tea.Really shameful that Mr Scott has not bothered to verify the current conditions on ground in India before writing this disgusting stuff about my country.Just one particularly obnoxious example should serve the purpose. To wit: " Horn steered Tata trucks and buses trail a wake of carcinogenic soot past Victorian three-wheeled contraptions, slick Bajaj scooters and blacked-out Range Rovers, while among them all a humble farmer leads a cow to market with a tree trunk on its back". What complete, utter, rubbish. What a whole load of s$it.There were and are no horn steered Tata trucks in India. They were present even today with our backward enemy, namely Terroristan aka Pakistan. Bharat Stage emission norms were enforced since 2000 and the current version ( of the book's edition) exceed California norms. Violation is heavily penalised. There are no Bajaj scooters in India other than carefully maintained vintage models. Ditto blacked-out Range Rovers; only factory fitted tinted windows are permitted. Get caught with extra dark windows and be prepared to be a rape suspect. The last is the best. No Indian from any walk of life will burden a cow with even a match stick. But then, what is a white man to know that only oxen are used as beasts of burden and that too, only in rural areas of Asia.The input of only 03 non-indian riders has been taken - Lisa Thomas, Ed Gill and Elspeth Beard. The last of whom is from 1959, Mr Gill from 1983. So, feedback from 61 years ago and 37 years ago respectively is supposed to be accurate in 2020? Just the worst form of a cheap copy paste job w/o the slightest intent towards accuracy. Horrible.There are only 04 pics of urban India and all of them seem to be placed in the book to purposefully depict the country as a typical Third World backward nation. Not one single pic of modern India. Not one.I cannot speak about riding conditions in other parts of the world so have to take Mr Scott at face or here, book value.In conclusion, the best book for adv riders. The Upanishad, the Veda and the Gita for RTW adv riders. Minus, of course, the pure sewage written about the land of these masterpieces. (Readers of this review will respect this book on seeing the level to which I have elevated it by comparing it to the greatest texts for humankind...)

Way more than I thought it would be.. amazing details on lots of bikes, traveling, things I didn't think of.. well worth the purchase

Com dicas de escolha da moto, equipamentos, modificações, planejamento de viagem e muito mais. Valeu a pena!!!

Niet op adventure vertrekken met je motorfiets zonder eerst dit boek gelezen te hebben

For people that are new to Adventure Motorcycling this is the number one book for sure. Everything that you need to start off.I do truly recommend the book to anyone interested in this field of adventure.Keep it up, Chris Scott!

I've been riding street motorcycles since 1992. In that time I've toured overseas on rented motorcycles a few times in places such as Australia, Central America, India, and New Zealand. These trips have been for two to four weeks at a time. For the last 20 years, I've had a dream of buying a small motorcycle in South America and touring around the continent, not for a few weeks, but several months or perhaps even years. Until I retire, I don't have the time or the freedom to make that dream real - but I can read about it and plan.This book is written as a practical guide to help with such plans. There is information meant for both newbie and highly experienced motorcyclists, and I think even folks on bicycles or in 4-wheels would benefit from reading this book. There is a ton of great information on planning a route, preparing your paperwork and vehicle, and most importantly, preparing yourself!There aren't a lot of travel books I would read cover to cover without skipping a word. This is one book that I would read through. I strongly recommend it!