The Wrong Way Round

Picking up his Royal Enfield motorcycle in Delhi, Andy Benfield leaves for Burma with his aristocratic girlfriend in a bid to be the first westerner to cross into Burma by motorcycle in over fifty years and to win his girlfriend's heart. Triumphs, mishaps, and unexpected experiences follow the unprepared couple along the Himalayas toward their goal.

'Mate, I reckon you're going about this all wrong. For the first month, you're only going to be a day's drive from Melbourne. If it was me, I'd get her across the Nullarbor quick smart so she can't nick off home.' When Lorna Hendry, her husband James and young kids left Melbourne on a one-year trip around Australia in a 4WD with a camper trailer (having only been camping once before they left), they ignored all advice and drove across the Nullarbor and up the west coast of Australia. They may have been travelling the wrong way around Australia, but it was the best decision they ever made. Lorna returned to Melbourne three years later, having crossed deserts and rivers, taken ill-advised short cuts in the most remote areas of the country, stood on the western edge and the northern tip of the country, stumbled onto its geographic centre, and lived in remote communities in Western Australia. Wrong Way Round is a story about four people who had to get out of the city to become a family. It's about this beautiful and harsh country. And it's about the adventures that you can have if you step outside of your door and turn left instead of right.

A young man escapes 1970s Belfast on his Moto Guzzi Le Mans, and tries to find himself... and the road to Australia... what could possibly go wrong

'A highly readable and spiritually uplifting book about a dream come true' Wanderlust 'Touching and memorable ... one for armchair travellers and bike freaks' Daily Mail From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride more than twenty thousand miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream.

When we got to the end of the street, we tried to think of where to go trick or treating next. “I think we should go to Cedar Street,” Carrie said. “Why Cedar Street?” I asked. “Those are small houses, not rich ones.” “Yeah,” Carrie answered. “But they are close together. We can hit more houses in less time.” I had to admit she had a point. “OK,” I agreed with her. Suddenly I saw a lane branching off from the end of the turn-around. “What’s that?” I asked. Carrie stared at it in the darkness. The lane quickly disappeared into a mass of trees. “There’s a sign,” she said. “And there’s a light on the sign,” I added. “And a pumpkin decoration beneath it!” We hurried forward. “Wrong Way Round Hall,” she read. Find out what happens to these two brave trick or treaters in this creepy tale of horror. Ages 9 and up. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

This is the true story of two men becoming forty, one a famous film star, the other an unpublished writer. When Nathan Braund discovered Ewan McGregor was filming up the road from where he was living in Phuket, Thailand, he interpreted it as more than a coincidence. He planned to put his movie script into the hands of the Scottish star, even though he knew it was unprofessional to pester an A-list actor, particularly when they were working on a serious film about the 2004 tsunami. Sceptics would argue he was having a mid-life crisis but he felt it was a calling, the break he needed after all these years. Join him with his wife and two small children on a journey of discovery, as he tries and fails on countless occasions to meet Ewan before finally succeeding in approaching him with script in hand.

When we got to the end of the street, we tried to think of where to go trick or treating next. “I think we should go to Cedar Street,” Carrie said. “Why Cedar Street?” I asked. “Those are small houses, not rich ones.” “Yeah,” Carrie answered. “But they are close together. We can hit more houses in less time.” I had to admit she had a point. “OK,” I agreed with her. Suddenly I saw a lane branching off from the end of the turn-around. “What’s that?” I asked. Carrie stared at it in the darkness. The lane quickly disappeared into a mass of trees. “There’s a sign,” she said. “And there’s a light on the sign,” I added. “And a pumpkin decoration beneath it!” We hurried forward. “Wrong Way Round Hall,” she read. Find out what happens to these two brave trick or treaters in this creepy tale of horror. Ages 9 and up. Educational Versions Include exercises designed to meet Common Core Standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

What if... Everything that you Love, Worship, Trust and Belive in, isn’t quite what you think it is? Vishal Rajguru is a PG student, set out on a journey of video-documenting a 14-day spiritual and personality development program, “A Way Around”. In a quest to explore how urban Indians are resorting to workshops that ‘teach’ living with a spiritually developed mind & body he’s confronted with facts that could just shake up his entire belief system. On his mission for documenting what he thinks is just another workshop of some kind, he unravels the hidden truth and revelations that could well jeopardize his documentary mission... and life.