Travel Asia With Sam Manicom, Affordably—New Book Coming Soon! – Adventure Rider

Looking to travel Asia, but you can’t afford the airfare? Good news—at the end of October, you’ll be able to visit Asia in the company of Sam Manicom and his friends, with release of a new book in his series of ADV anthologies!

The new book is called The Moment Collectors ASIA, and it is an obvious follow-up to Manicom’s previous Moment Collectors book. See here for RTWpaul’s write-up on that book.

Manicom follows the same pattern with his new book. He’s a very well-known traveler and author in his own right, as a contributor to moto magazines and podcasts for many years, and authoring his own travel series from his RTW trip via airhead BMW. But in the Moment Collectors series, Sam reaches out to his travel-hungry friends for their tales as well, getting very different perspectives from very different people riding very different bikes.

Here’s how he describes the new book:

Take 20 motorcycle travellers from nine countries, experienced and novice, and ask them to write about travelling the world’s largest and most diverse continent: to share a moment from those travels which became priceless. A moment that had them thinking, ‘this is exactly why I’m out here!’ With inspirational writing, the authors take readers travelling  through some of the most magnificent landscapes in the world. Connected by
motorcycles and an insatiable curiosity, the stories shared have readers travelling from the heat of the central Asian steppes to the snow-topped mountains of Nepal, from backroads India, to riding and exploring the history of Korea, from the forests of Burma to the extremes of eastern Siberia, and much more.

Readers will experience stories from a wide range of cultures and will be introduced to genuine kindness. They’ll be riding asphalt, gravel, sand and mud with the authors in some of the most remote parts of the world, and to counter those big sky tales, they’ll be taken riding through the dense traffic of Asian cities. Within the stories shared, readers will be invited to a wedding in the ‘Stans’, to drink vodka for breakfast, teach in the jungles of Cambodia and will camp on the beach with ghosts. The authors eat foods that range from taste bud delights to gut wrenching experiences which will have readers laughing.

Contributing authors are Sam Manicom, Heather Ellis, Chris Donaldson, Jacqui Furneaux, Jeff Franz, Anatoly Chernyavskiy, Simon Roberts, Simon McCarthy, Anita Yusof, Candida Lewis, Maria Schumacher, Sheonagh Ravensdale, Paul Stewart (aka RTWpaul), Leigh Wilkins, Carl Parker, Heike Fania, Fern Hume, Sherri Jo Wilkins, Zebb Penman and Heather Lea.

Stay tuned for  more details when the book is closer to launch; we’ll try to get our hands on a copy for review. And if you want a suggestion for a Christmas present for a motorcyclists, maybe this will fit the bill, as it’ll come out shortly before the holiday season.