Contents
Acknowledgments
2. My Bonnie Norwegian Lassie
3. Mountain Climbing on a Bicycle
4. Climbing the Matterhorn Alone
5. All Roads Lead to Rome
6. Crusoe Comes to Capri
7. See Naples and Die
8. Italy to England in Six Days via Bicycle
PART TWO
BUCEPHALUS BECOMES A ’ROUND THE WORLD REALITY
10. Paradise Balls to Paradise Halls
11. Neuschwanstein to Zugspitze
12. Crossing the Kreuzberg
13. Dancing Daughters of Dalmatia
14. From the Pearls of Dalmatia to the Isles of Illyria
15. Athens, Georgia—Athens, Greece
16. Mediterranean Misadventures
17. Entree Into Egypt
18. A “Cracker” in Cairo
19. The Nile
20. The Closed Gateway to the East
21. Street Children of Colorful Cairo
22. Mother of the Pyramids
PART THREE
EXODUS FROM EGYPT
23. Sunrise on Sinai
24. Petra to Palestine
25. Marching to Zion
26. On the Jericho Road
27. Dodging Arab Devils to Damascus
28. Delving Through Damascus
PART FOUR
HEJIRA TO HIGH ASIA
29. Cycling Across the Great Syrian Desert
31. Kermanshah to Teheran
32. The Peacock Throne
33. On the Road to Meshed
34. The Holy City of Meshed
PART FIVE
BLAZING A NEW AFGHAN TRAIL WITH A BICYCLE
35. First Adventures on a Virgin Trail
36. Among the Wild Tribesmen
PART SIX
ENTRÉE INTO INDIAN SUMMER
37. Khyber to Calcutta via the Grand Trunk Road
38. Criss-Crossing Through Calcutta and Rough Riding to Rangoon
PART SEVEN
BICYCLING THROUGH BURMA
39. On the Road to Mandalay
40. “We Three”
41. Across the Heho Plain
42. Into the Jungle Mountains of the Federated Shan States
43. Cutting Through to Kentung
44. Paradise at Pangwai
PART EIGHT
SUNSET SHADOWS ON THE SUNRISE TRAIL
45. Big Game Hunting on a Bicycle
46. Out of the Valley of the Shadow
PART NINE
BUCEPHALUS RIDES AGAIN
47. Biking to Bangkok
48. Angkor, Castle of the Sleeping Beauty
49. Siem Reap to Saigon
PART TEN
PACIFIC EPILOGUE
50. Piloting Across the Pacific
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