Motorcycle Explorer September 2016 Issue 13 | Page 98

Media News: Sam manicom
Distant Suns
Audio Book Release
Sam Manicom’s dynamic third book
transports you through three very
different parts of the world. Sam is now
travelling with a companion, Birgit,
who you’ll have met during the course
of his previous audiobook ‘Under Asian
Skies’. In part, Distant Suns is the story
of how boy meets girl, both endowed
with a mile-wide streak of wanderlust,
and both fiercely independent, but
learning to live together on the road,
and saving each other’s lives on
occasion. Birgit catches your attention
right away with her incredible
initiative and capability with her bike.
Yet she’d only been riding a bike for
600 miles when they arrived in Kenya
at the beginning of this journey.
Sam and Birgit’s adventures are seldom
without risk, but the attitude they have
is hugely positive and that turns even
the direst of times into a new and
enthralling aspect of the road. When
Paul Theroux wrote, ‘Take the leap. Go
as far as you can. Try staying out of
touch. Become a stranger in a strange
land’, he could have been describing
Distant Suns. Sam’s acute observations
of the human behaviour, drama,
passion, disaster, and the humour of
three very different parts of the world
may well surprise you. The humour and
pure adrenaline buzz of overlanding
such far-flung, wild and exotic places
are right here.
Free Sample : Chapter One