Lawrence Bransby

Lawrence Bransby, award-winning author and motorcycle adventurer, in his latest journey across Russia - the whole way this time - rode the Road of Bones twice, alone, on an old DR350 that had been stored in a shed in Kyrgyzstan for two years....

Most people would regard it as irresponsible madness for a father to take his 17-year-old son, riding old and somewhat worn-out XT500 motorcycles, on a four-month ride across Africa. But Lawrence Bansby did. In this era of celebrity, fully-supported long-distance motorcycle journeys with 4X4s...

Five and a half decades of adventure travel, mostly on a bike, often alone. Tales from the Road is a compilation of the best of Bransby’s writing. If you are toying with the idea of embarking on an adventurous journey, preferably on a motorcycle, be warned: Your comfortable lifestyle will, in...

In his ninth motorcycle journey, award-winning author Lawrence Bransby has chosen to travel through Vietnam. With the ever-present spectre of the war looking over his shoulder, Bransby travels throughout this fiercely independent country, meeting local people, riding sections of the Ho Chi Minh...

It took Lawrence Bransby and his son, Gareth, three journeys into Central Asia before they were able to ride the legendary Bartang Pass. But it's another pass that becomes the focus of this story - Matts Pass in southern Tajikistan - and a motorcycle gets abandoned deep in the Pamir Mountains...

Stuck in deep sand, stuck in snow, bogged down in glutinous mud, crossing boulder-strewn dry riverbeds. A motorcycle trip that started with a vague intention of crossing the High Atlas Mountains and setting off into the desert beyond, turned into an epic journey with five unexpected highlights -...

When I was 12 years old, my father, brother and I walked 372 miles from Umhlanga Rocks, just north of Durban, South Africa, to Lourenco Marques in Mocambique....

Aaah Russia, the most mysterious and exciting of places! It is this country, 18 million square kilometres in size and 11 percent of the entire world’s land mass, it cast its spell over me when I was growing up in South Africa, where Russians were the “Reds under every bed”, feared, and demonized....

"The road to Koki Jar is fine, but at the end of the trip both the car and the driver will be destroyed"--advice from a local. Well, it wasn't a car--it was bikes, a KLE500 and a KTM990, and by the end of the trip the KLE was pretty much trashed. On their third epic trip together, Lawrence...

A 25-year-old motorcycle. A 70-year-old man. One of the most dangerous roads on Earth.

Five and a half decades of adventure travel, mostly by motorcycle, often alone or with his son. "Tales From The Road" captures interesting and unusual vignettes from the author's adventure travels, starting, perhaps, when he was 6 years old (a solo, unauthorised 3-mile journey by tricycle).

Five and a half decades of adventure travel, mostly by motorcycle, often alone or with his son. Now in his 70's, Tales from the Road: Volume 3 captures interesting and unusual vignettes from the author's adventure travels.

On his very first visit to America, motorcycle traveller Lawrence Bransby embarks on a journey that will take him from Southern California to the northernmost points of both Alaska and Canada then back across the USA to Texas.

Get hold of an old banger for under £50; spend less that £5 on preparing it—and then drive it from the UK, across a section of the Western Sahara, to The Gambia in West Africa. Easy.... This short book is a slightly expanded account of this amazing adventure, taken from the diary I kept...

When I was 12, I walked from Durban to Lourenco Marques with my elder brother, Neville, and my father. It took us two weeks to complete the 372 miles, sleeping mostly on the side of the road, often walking from before dawn until after sundown. The journey changed my life in ways incalculable at...

It is only when 17-year-old John Sanders actually meets the squatters who are putting up their makeshift shacks of plastic and wattle branches and stolen corrugated iron on an unused piece of waste land near the bottom of his parents’ house, that he is able to come to terms....

Hope, anger, bravery, love, fear... There are four groups of cats in this story: a loving family; a vicious gang; a loosely-knit gathering who have made the sewer their home; pampered cat-pets lazing in a rich man's house. And it is the interactions between these cats that make up the tapestry...

This is a book of 12 "Amazing" stories especially written for young girls—uplifting and exciting stories that will delight young listeners.