Tom Doig
Auteur de Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure
Œuvres de Tom Doig
Aotearoa (in The Lifted Brow 6 - SCOTT) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- New Zealand
- Lieux de résidence
- Australia
- Relations
- McKay, Laura Jean (wife)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 31
- Popularité
- #440,253
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 15
Cycling through the beautiful Mongolian countryside they encountered all sorts of natural and manmade hazards, including floods, massive hailstones, underpant wrestling, uncross able rivers, fields full of marijuana and mad dogs. The locals were mostly pleased to see them, and those that didn’t stop to offer them a lift would provide delicacies such as dried fermented milk from a horse, unidentifiable meat and probably far too much of the local Chinggis Khaan vodka. It is a harsh country to cycle through too; there are few roads and they ended up on mostly tracks, with the odd swamp just to make life much harder.
Overall it is not a bad book, but it is nothing exceptional either. Their woeful lack of preparation is quite amusing, and he does write quite well of the people and places he sees, but it is pretty crude at times and there weren’t any really laugh out loud moments for me. It is full of antipodean vernacular too, which after a while does grate.… (plus d'informations)