Bikers' Bookshelf

Lost since 1925, the true story of an epic, post-WWI motorcycle journey is back!

Updated, modernized and annotated, this digital edition contains:

• 29 original B&W photos, digitized and retouched
• Annotations providing historical context and explanations.
• Detailed biography of author Clare Sheridan
• Modernized grammar and spelling
• New, modern cover
• First-ever digital version
• First release since 1925
• Digitized by hand with perfect formatting and punctuation

Winston Churchill, the author’s cousin, advised Sheridan to ditch a writing career and “to please and inspire the male sex…”

Instead, Clare Sheridan carved out a unique life, traveling the world, writing 16 books and sculpting the era’s most famous people. Across Europe with Satanella follows Sheridan and her brother as they drive a motorcycle from England to Russia across a Europe still reeling from the devastation of WWI.

They evade bandits, encounter displaced people, tour WWI ruins, and watch a continent re-emerge from WWI. Of course, as English tourists, they draw the suspicion and interest of everyone they meet. They set out on a 7-hp motorcycle sidecar from England to Crimea, but with lurking criminals, plodding bureaucrats, and post-war poverty and unrest, will they make it?

Excerpt: “That Peter should be tired was a matter of great satisfaction to me. I asked him (tentatively, of course, for when a man is tired one must not press him for statements) if his idea of “the trip,” of which two months and three weeks still lie before us, was to speed as we had speeded across Holland and Germany. He answered that Holland and Germany stood in our way and were merely space to be covered in order to get on to our ground. He agreed reassuringly to a slowing down process now that we had reached Czecho-Slovakia.”