7 Best memoir books like Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World by Elspeth Beard

Cover of Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World by Elspeth Beard

Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

By: Elspeth Beard

4.49

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Bear…

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Cover of Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart

1. Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

By: Neil Peart

4.11

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

This bold narrative written by the drummer and lyricist for the band Rush shows how Peart tried to … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • motorcycle
  • audiobook
Cover of Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon

2. Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph

By: Ted Simon

4.19

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In fou… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • motorcycling
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • motorcycle
"In spite of wars and tourism and pictures by satellite, the world is just the same size it ever was. It is awesome to think how much of it I will never see. It is not a trick to go round these days, …"

-Ted Simon, Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph

3. The unknown Mongol

By: None

2.00

Format: None pages,

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4. Dreaming Of Jupiter

By: Ted Simon

3.72

Format: 134 pages,

Back in the seventies, Ted Simon drove a Triumph motorcycle around the world. His book, Jupiter's T… read more

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5. All the Gear No Idea: A Woman's Solo Motorbike Journey Around the Indian Subcontinent

By: None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

BOOK REVIEW by Stuart Jewkes, Editor of The Rider's Digest "All the gear and no idea" is usually me… read more

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6. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more

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7. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

By: Amy Stewart

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley.… read more

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8. Ubuntu: One Woman's Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa

By: Heather Ellis

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu - the universal bond that connects all of hum… read more

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9. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

By: Rolf Potts

3.55

Format: 320 pages,

Vagabondingis about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two ye… read more

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10. Red Tape and White Knuckles: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through Africa

By: Lois Pryce

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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11. Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas

By: Lois Pryce

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lois Pryce was working at the BBC in London, firmly set on the career track. But unbeknownst to her… read more

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Cover of The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner

12. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

Cover of Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World by Elspeth Beard

13. Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

By: Elspeth Beard

4.49

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Bear… read more

Similar categories in Elspeth Beard's Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World book and Elspeth Beard's Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • motorcycling
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • motorcycle
  • audiobook
Cover of Ride to the Midnight Sun – A Motorcycle Adventure in two weeks and one day (Motorcycle Travel Books by Stephen Mason Book 1) by Stephen  Mason

14. Ride to the Midnight Sun – A Motorcycle Adventure in two weeks and one day (Motorcycle Travel Books by Stephen Mason Book 1)

By: Stephen Mason

3.83

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of an motorcycle adventure from Scotland to the top of mainland Norway which was … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Mason's Ride to the Midnight Sun – A Motorcycle Adventure in two weeks and one day (Motorcycle Travel Books by Stephen Mason Book 1) book and Elspeth Beard's Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

  • motorcycle
Cover of Going the Wrong Way: A Young Belfast Man Sets off on His Moto Guzzi Le Mans to Find Himself, and the Road to Australia. What Could Possibly Go Wrong! by Chris  Donaldson

15. Going the Wrong Way: A Young Belfast Man Sets off on His Moto Guzzi Le Mans to Find Himself, and the Road to Australia. What Could Possibly Go Wrong!

By: Chris Donaldson

4.67

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

What could possibly go wrong when a 21- year old man decides to fire up his set of wheels; his beau… read more

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  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Do It While You Still Can: Motorcycle Escapades and Tribulations by Nick   Adams

16. Do It While You Still Can: Motorcycle Escapades and Tribulations

By: Nick Adams

4.10

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

There are times when sitting on the couch in front of the TV seems infinitely preferable to rolling… read more

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Cover of Home By Seven: One woman's solo journey to ride all seven continents on two wheels by Steph Jeavons

17. Home By Seven: One woman's solo journey to ride all seven continents on two wheels

By: Steph Jeavons

4.62

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman’s solo journey to ride all seven continents on two wheels Welsh girl Steph Jeavons ran aw… read more

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Cover of On Roads That Echo: A bicycle journey through Asia and Africa by Charlie  Walker

18. On Roads That Echo: A bicycle journey through Asia and Africa

By: Charlie Walker

4.55

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

★★★★★ "A true adventure in every sense. Superbly written" ★★★★★ "Just a stunningly good hardcore tr… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of A Fast Bike to North Cape by Andy C Wareing

19. A Fast Bike to North Cape

By: Andy C Wareing

4.59

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The year—1989. The destination—Nordkapp, the northernmost part of Scandinavia, deep inside the Arct… read more

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Cover of A Fast Bike to Byzantium by Andy C Wareing

20. A Fast Bike to Byzantium

By: Andy C Wareing

4.53

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 1986; communism and the Iron Curtain lie across his path, but Andy is lured on his solo… read more

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Cover of Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick     Taylor

21. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of GOT2GO: How I rode around the world on a motorcycle solo and what I learned along the way by Lea Rieck

22. GOT2GO: How I rode around the world on a motorcycle solo and what I learned along the way

By: Lea Rieck

4.48

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

Your family. Your friends. Your job. Your language. Your life, as you know it. Imagine you leave al… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • motorcycle
Cover of Back on My Bike: How Cycling Transformed My Life after Sixty (Back on My Bike Series Book 1) by Tom Eastham

23. Back on My Bike: How Cycling Transformed My Life after Sixty (Back on My Bike Series Book 1)

By: Tom Eastham

4.21

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

As hotel manager Tom Eastham’s retirement approaches, his best friend tries to persuade him to get … read more

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Cover of Tortillas to Totems by Sam Manicom

24. Tortillas to Totems

By: Sam Manicom

4.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In Sam’s fourth book Tortillas to Totems, as you travel across Mexico, the USA and Canada you’ll fi… read more

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  • travel
  • motorcycle
Cover of Motorcycle Touring: "Why Don't I Come With You?" by Chris Hardy

25. Motorcycle Touring: "Why Don't I Come With You?"

By: Chris Hardy

4.33

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

So you bought all the gear, wandered off by yourself for a few trips and returned home brimming wit… read more

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Cover of The Long Ride Home: From Sydney to London (The Postman Book 1) by Nathan Millward

26. The Long Ride Home: From Sydney to London (The Postman Book 1)

By: Nathan Millward

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of my 35,000 kilometres ride from Sydney to London on a 105cc Honda called Doroth… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • motorcycle
Cover of The Runaway Wife by Dee MacDonald

27. The Runaway Wife

By: Dee MacDonald

4.03

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

‘OMG!… It made me howl with laughter and it made me sob my heart out… I absolutely adored every sin… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of No Wrong Turns: Cycling the World, Part One: Paris to Sydney by Chris Pountney

28. No Wrong Turns: Cycling the World, Part One: Paris to Sydney

By: Chris Pountney

4.46

Format: 548 pages, Kindle Edition

When Chris Pountney pedals away from the Eiffel Tower he is doing more than just going for a bike r… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dodging Bullets: Resurrection of a Motorcycle by David Wittlinger

29. Dodging Bullets: Resurrection of a Motorcycle

By: David Wittlinger

4.19

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

When author David Wittlinger decided to get an old motorcycle to fix up he didn't have any particul… read more

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Cover of THAT'S AN OLD BIKE - WHERE YOU HEADIN'?: Canada Coast to Coast on a Fifty Year Old Italian Motorcycle by Nick   Adams

30. THAT'S AN OLD BIKE - WHERE YOU HEADIN'?: Canada Coast to Coast on a Fifty Year Old Italian Motorcycle

By: Nick Adams

4.49

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

My well-travelled 1972 Moto Guzzi Eldorado turned fifty in 2022, shortly after I turned seventy. Wi… read more

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Cover of Hitting the road; motorcycle travels on a budget by Jacek Klimko

31. Hitting the road; motorcycle travels on a budget

By: Jacek Klimko

3.62

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

"★★★★★...One of the best books I have ever read and one of the only books that I actually couldn't … read more

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Neil Peart

4.11

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Dwight Garner

3.88

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Elspeth Beard

4.49

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Patrick Taylor

4.08

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Free Country: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain

George Mahood

4.13

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Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph

Ted Simon

4.19

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To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

Jedidiah Jenkins

3.94

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