Lois Pryce and Alice Lushington have travelled across the world as solo female adventurers by motorbike and bicycle. Their stories are fascinating, amusing and inspiring. Find out what drives them to travel independently across in what some might describe as dangerous countries full of the unknown. Hear more about what were the highs and the lows, the challenges of being a woman in hostile environments, crossing borders and what other adventures lie in store for these intrepid travellers.
Lois and Alice will be interviewed by a host, followed by Q& A from the audience, there will also be an opportunity to purchase books from The Bookshop and have them signed by Lois and Alice.
The event will take place in Revive Cafe at The Charis Centre. There is a large rear car park with the entrnace off Town Barn Road, RH11 7EB.
Please enter the door signed Revive and turn left down the corridor.
LOIS PRYCE
Lois Pryce is a British travel author, journalist and broadcaster. She is also co-founder of the Adventure Travel Film Festival.
In 2003 Lois left her job at the BBC in London to ride twenty-thousand miles from Alaska to the tip of South America astride her Yamaha XT225. Upon her return she wrote the book of this trip, Lois on the Loose, which was published in the USA and the UK and translated into several languages.
In 2006 she set off on a Yamaha TTR250 to ride the length of Africa, taking in the Sahara, the Congo and Angola. Four months and ten-thousand miles later she rolled into Cape Town, just about in one piece. Her book of this grand adventure, Red Tape & White Knuckles was published in 2008.
Since then she has crossed the USA in a vintage Russian sidecar outfit, scripted and presented a video guide to worldwide motorcycle travel and launched the Adventure Travel Film Festival with her husband, fellow motorcycle-adventurer, Austin Vince.
In 2013/14 she made two solo tours of Iran on her motorcycle which is the subject of her latest book, Revolutionary Ride, which was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford ‘Adventure Book of the Year’ Award and named a National Geographic Book of the Year.
ALICE LUSHINGTON - CYCLING PROFICIENCY
A wilfully ridiculous and thoroughly heartfelt travel memoir. Cycling Proficiency: the road to recovery is 4,500 miles of European pedal-mania with a crazy twist. The twist is that Alice Lushington is crazy. Not ‘cute’ crazy, not ‘bohemian’ crazy but bog standard, where-are-the-sandwiches-at-this-picnic crazy. 'I want to help people. I want somebody who is troubled to come across my story and realise the wild wonder beyond the horizon of recovery. It is not a technical or pretentious book but one written precisely from my heart to yours, the reader put snuggly in my scruffy pink trainers and taken with me: through the highs, lows, deserts and mountains, underneath lightning, away from dogs and handsome French boys (but always towards recovery). 'It’s raw, it’s real, it’s excruciatingly honest about the darker shades of my life, however the dominant flavour of Cycling Proficiency is naïve fun and wacky humour. There's one more big twist too: each chapter begins with a hand-drawn pencil illustration of some of the places, characters and scenes from my saga.'