cover image Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000
\t\t  Miles Across the Americas

Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 \t\t Miles Across the Americas

Lois Pryce, . . St. Martin's, $23.95 (294pp) ISBN 978-0-312-35221-9

Bored by her desk job at the BBC, Pryce decided to convert her travel \t\t daydreams into real-life adventure. At her local travel bookshop, she \t\t discovered a book called Jupiter's Travels \t\t by Ted Simon as well as a few handbooks on motorcycle adventuring, and she was \t\t hooked. She bought a small dirt bike, a versatile and affordable Yamaha XT225 \t\t Serow, and decided she'd bike from Anchorage, Alaska, to the southernmost city \t\t of South America, Ushuaia, Argentina—almost 20,000 miles. In this engaging \t\t read, Pryce narrates the adventure. Local bikers helped the witty and sociable \t\t Pryce get her Serow fixed, strangers offered shelter or advice and various \t\t friends joined her, for better or worse. She rode through flaking dried mud and \t\t boulder-strewn donkey paths, through broiling desert heat and blinding Andean \t\t snows. Armchair travelers will delight in this funny, vivid account \t\t and—almost—wish they'd done it themselves. B&w photos throughout. \t\t (Mar.)