Sadly now out of print, 'Two wheel Trek' is the story of one man, a bike and open road between Manchester and Cape Town. Despite warnings that he was being over-ambitious ('You'll never make it past the pub') Neil Clough took to the route, traveling across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Nubian desert, Lake Victoria and Zimbabwe (or Rhodesia as it was then called). Throwing caution to the wind he travels through two war zones (Lebananon and Rhodesia) and worries about falling victim to theft in Turkey, whereby he constructs a Heath Robinson alarm system. Endlessly facinating, with stories of all Neil's adventures, this book makes perfect reading for those of us who would love to do such a thing but are just too scared (and rightly so). The best part of the book for me was when Neil Clough traveled through the Sudanese Nubian desert. Because it was so sandy (being a desert) Clough conveniently located a virtually disused railroad along which he pushed the bike in the night, to avoid the heat of the African sun. Every so often he would come across rail supervisor's huts outside which there were a variety of pots and pans. Neil describes stopping at each one of these and rearranging the items in artistic displays and imagining what the people inside would think when they woke up to see it. It is very funny and full of similar anecdotes and interesting facts that you never knew. I only hope you manage to get hold of a copy, despite its being out of print, because it is well worth it.