Slow Boat to Mongolia
Lydia Laube
PB 250 PP 198 x 129 $14.95 1862544182 Travel /
True Stories APN 9781862544185 Wakefield Press
My mount needed considerable encouragement.
As we finally got into gear, I put up my pink parasol with a pop,
frightening the donkey so much that we nearly got to the top at
full gallop.
Who else but Lydia Laube would climb the Great
Wall of China on a donkey waving a pink parasol? Slow Boat
to Mongolia is a hilarious account of her travels by ship,
train and bone-shaking bus through Indonesia and China on her
way to the almost mythical Outer Mongolia.
The intrepid author of Behind the Veil
and The Long Way Home returns with her most adventurous
tale yet.
By the same author:
Behind
the Veil
Bound
for Vietnam
Is
this the Way to Madagascar?
Llama
for Lunch
The
Long Way Home
Temples
and Tuk Tuks