Travel Writing
Synopsis
Tea-drinking is a ritual that binds people together. Alan Whelan was on a unique quest: to find the people at the hidden heart of Africa… and sit down for a nice cup of tea with them. On the 14,000-mile solo journey through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and all the way to Cape Town across deserts and the toughest roads imaginable, he met sporting legends and ministers, peacekeepers and outlaws, and countless people who shared their last morsel of food with him.
Armed with little more than blind optimism, he experienced a jaw-dropping ride. Uplifting, insightful and funny, this is the story of one man’s determination through the most physically and emotionally challenging five months of his life.
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Peter Moore (author & travel writer) from his full review of the book in his blog, 5th April 2010
‘...The tea time encounters are nicely judged and add a humanising element that a lot of motorcycle adventure books lack. There’s as much about Africa and the Africans as there...
'Mr Whelan is one of the countless English eccentrics whose sense of adventure verges on insanity... with a keen, predominantly optimistic eye, Whelan portrays his encounters poignantly. Those he meets...
Adventure Travel OnLine, 19th April 2010
'I thoroughly enjoyed author Alan Whelan’s trials and tribulations as he journeyed solo and unsupported down the west coast of Africa – that’s the tough side of the continent... His...
Lancashire Evening Post, 27th March 2010
'Alan Whelan’s new book tells how he undertook an amazing 14,000-mile African motorbiking odyssey – to prove the power of a nice cup of tea can unite the world.'
Lytham St Annes Express, 1st April 2010
'Alan Whelan’s solo motorbike tour across Africa was simply tea-riffic.'
The Blackpool Gazette, 24th March 2010
‘Everything stops for tea – even a solo motorbike tour across Africa. Ask marathon bike rider, Alan Whelan... He went 14,000 miles solo through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and all the...
The Lancashire Writers’ Hub website, 10th January 2011
‘entertaining travelogue... He described his adventures and mishaps with a disarming honesty... the undoubted stars of the book are the African people... fresh insights into life in some of Africa’s...
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