Tea and Grit - A Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road

Tea and Grit: a warm and evocative travel narrative relating the author's 15,000-km cycle ride from Scotland to China in 2009-2010. Crossing deserts, mountains, minefields and military zones in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Central Asia - all at a time when the CIA was tracking Osama bin Laden - this book celebrates the rich, poetic cultures of the Silk Road.