Bikers' Bookshelf

When Peter Riordan and Stephanie Dowseset off from Nepal for India on a vintage Enfield Bullet nothing could have prepared the two novice motorcyclists forwhat lay ahead.
Harried by murderous lorry drivers, bedevilled by breakdowns, dodging pot-holes and bullock carts, the pair journeyed to the southernmost tip of the subcontinent and back to the Himalayas, coming face to face with an India that few outsiders experience.
Their 17,000 kilometre odyssey takes eh reader along teeming, fume-choked highways, through backwaters of exquisite beauty, and into the world of everyday India – at once welcoming, exasperating, enchanting and unknowable.
Motorcycle Masala is not merely an account – wryly observed and full of gentle ironies – of a difficult journey but also an exploration of India itself.