Stories from Elsewhere

By Carla King

In 1995, Carla King takes a job as a test rider for a company who wants to import a Russian sidecar motorcycle for the American market, thus spending four months breaking down in small towns all around the USA and becoming an expert mechanic. In 1998, she sets off on an illegal journey across China at the invitation of a group of expat American bikers, with similar consequences. In turns hilarious, horrifying, and incredibly suspenseful, these tales of resourcefulness, optimism, and stoicism will either cure you of wanderlust or inspire you to ride off into your own sunset.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carla King
• Release date: Oct 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9780964644588

Carla King

Carla King is a self-publishing expert and an adventure travel writer. She has been self-publishing since 1995 and has been teaching, speaking, and writing about publishing since 2005. Her Self-Publishing Boot Camp Guide for Authors is in its 4th edition. She also authors a blog and book series from her motorcycle journeys in America, Europe, China, India, and Africa. Her writing has been published in Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, Travelers’ Tales anthologies, and In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology. Her book, American Borders, is the first in a series of misadventurous travelogues.

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