The Road to Muckle Flugga: Great Drives in Five Continents

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"The great affair is to move," said Robert Lewis Stevenson. His words are echoed in this collection of stories by Phil Llewellin, an award-winning writer who has roamed the world from the Arctic Circle to Patagonia/

The Road to Muckle Flugga spans five continents and proves that exploring on anything from four to eighteen wheels can be fun... and dangerous. The fear experienced after reaching Afghanistan just in time for a coup d'etat contrasts with boozy exploits in Egypt, an entertaining journey through the Sahara Desert and a trip to China with young Jeremy Clarkson.

Llewellin made these journeys in a remarkable range of vehicles. He drove a Morgan Aero Eight to retrace the route of the 1902 race from Paris to Vienna, and a Ford Maverick to the northernmost tip of Britain, Muckle Flugga rock.

In America he took a 2,000-mile trip by Trailways bus from Dallas to Seattle, spent a fortnight with Paul Hughes in his Peterbilt truck and trailer delivering expensive cars to super-rich folk, and tested his nerve in Utah's Canyonlands, inching a Range Rover up to the spine of sandstone he feelingly named Laxative Ridge. He explored Tobago in a Suzuki Samurai, learned the Arctic driver code in a Kenworth, and rode 4,071 miles to Iran with a haulage company delivering builder's equipment.

Llewellin's passion for military history is revealed in meticulously researched stories about the Battle of Britain and the D-Day landings. Characters encountered along the way include Winston Churchill, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Thomas Telford.

This fabulous book—packed with information, humor and interesting photographs—will appeal to anyone with a taste for adventure.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | Foreword by Jeremy Clarkson | Introduction | America | Canada | Africa | British Isles | Middle East | Caribbean and South America | Far East | Europe | Index

The Road to Muckle Flugga: Great Drives in Five Continents