Book description
Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce began the kind of adventure most
of us could only ever dream of. She put on her sparkly crash helmet,
armed herself with maps and a baffling array of visas, and got on her
bike. Destination: Cape Town - and the small matter of tackling the
Sahara, war-torn Angola and the Congo Basin along the way - this
feisty independent woman's grand trek through the Dark Continent of
Africa is the definitive motorcycling adventure.
Colourful and hilarious, Red Tape and White Knuckles is an
action-packed tale about following your dreams that will have you
packing your bags and jetting off into the sunset on your own
adventure before you know it.
Torn between the career paths of two illustrious relatives, Max Born,
the Nobel Prize Winner in Physics and his granddaughter, Olivia
Newton-John, Lois Pryce abandoned her interest in Quantum Theory at the
age of 16, left school and spent the next couple of years as a carrot
picker, painter and decorator and failing an audition as a kiss-o-gram
before bowing to the inevitable and going into rock 'n roll. After
various underpaid jobs in record shops and as a product manager in the
Beeb, she decided to jack it all in and ride her trail bike from Alaska
to Tierra del Fuego. Her on-line diary of her journey became a cult hit
and led to her first book,
Lois on the Loose.
When not on her bike she is at home on her houseboat with husband
Austin.
