Two Cats Walking

Literature & Fiction

Selby, Bettina

Contemporary

Mountain House

<p>At the age of 47, Bettina Selby, mother of three grown-up children decided to cycle alone from Karachi to Kathmandu. Her account of this often hair-raising epic journey provides an unusual view of Pakistan and India, and records some vivid memorable encounters with people met on the road. Although she enjoyed much kindness and hospitality, the reaction of some local men to an unaccompanied Western woman was, to say the least, unpredictable and sometimes ecalated close to dangerous violence. The heavy physical stress of keeping going in broiling heat on dust-blown and treacherous roads full of speeding trucks, ancient buses, bullock carts and herds of animals was a constant drain. In the Himalayas the ride became even more dangerous with avalanches, floods, bad curry and stone throwing children. But Bettina survived it all and wrote an account which has become a travel classic.</p>

Riding the Mountains Down

Travel

Asia

An account of the author's bicycle ride to Jerusalem by way of the Crusaders' routes across Europe and through Turkey and Syria to Israel. Other works by the author include "Beyond Ararat" and "Pilgrim's Road: A Journey to Santiago de Compostela".

Riding to Jerusalem

Travel Writing

Vividly written, a perceptive, sobering insight into English life today. Well known for her bicycle rides to Jerusalem and down the Nile, Bettina Selby took her trusty old bicycle to somewhere far closer to home. Her journey took her throughout England and up to the North - the land of Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter. And there, in the Lake District, along Hadrian's Wall and in Durham, she found the England of her memories.

Riding North One Summer

Europe

In one of her most exotic and physically challenging journeys, Bettina Selby set out to explore the land of ancient African empires along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.  Following the strange course of the River Niger - from time immemorial an uncharted royal road barred to white men - Bettina reaches the fabled city of Timbuktu and travels on to Djenne and Segou, revealing a lost world of cites founded centuries ago on the rich profits from trade in gold, spices, salt and slaves.For all its fascination it was a desperately hard land to travel through and even an all-terrain bicycle was not always equal to to the desert conditions.  Nothing if not flexible, Bettina resorted to pirogue, camel and bush taxi to reach some of her goals

Frail Dream of Timbuktu

Africa

Beyond Ararat

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