'Two-Up' By Scooter To Australia (Michael Marriott)

Author: Michael Marriott, Hardbound, 214 Pages, 1960 Reprint ,of original - **Second-Hand book in excellent unread condition!**

Michael Marriott and his wife once crossed the Sahara in a twenty-year-old London taxi, and recounted their adventures in a book called Desert Taxi. Three years later the same urge for bizarre and cheap travel led them to set out together bound overland for Australia riding 'two-up' on a motor scooter.

Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Persia have roads, but in Afghanistan the road was usually nothing more than a humped and gullied track across a grim, almost deserted land of mountain ranges, sandstone ridges and bare, scorched villages.

Every mile of travel in this country is a hazard, and with nothing but a scooter every hazard might have had serious results. Yet, after some unpleasant set-backs, the NIarriotts emerged from Afghanistan and made their way through Pakistan and India to Ceylon. Steamer took them to Adelaide, but the faithful scooter carried them round -the eastern half of Australia and across to Melville Island, reserved for aborigines whom they had come to observe. This is a travel-story of unusual character, told with humour and great vivacity.

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