Bikers' Bookshelf

By Helen Lloyd

It is cycling rather than motorcycling but included here anyway for the sheer impressiveness of the trip and because the author also motorcycled in Africa in “Wild Spirit”.

Desert Snow is the story of one girl, one bike and 1,000 beers in Africa.

By daring to follow a dream and not letting fear prevail, Helen cycled across the Sahara, Sahel and tropics of West Africa, paddled down the Niger River in a pirogue, hitch-hiked to Timbuktu and spent three months traversing the Congo, which she thought she may never leave…

A lot can change in 2 years, cycling 25,000km from England to Cape Town. So can nothing. Helen takes you with her on the journey through every high and low of her memories and misadventures. She describes a continent brimming with diversity that is both a world away from what