Sam Manicom

There is something refreshing about reading a travel book by an author who has not sought to write the screenplay of their travels. Sam Manicom's book is as honest in its narrative as it is in the authors nativity of the countries and people he encountered while traveling north to south across this vast continent. If you are an experience traveler you may read this book and empathise with the steep learning curve involved with surviving in an unfamiliar land; if you are an inexperienced, or show more 'wanna'be' traveler - especially involving motorcycles - you may well read this and think, "He's no different to me, I COULD do that ...". show less