Description

Overlanders’ Handbook

Chris Scott and his band of globetrotting contributors and specialists have put together the definitive manual for planning and undertaking a vehicle-dependent overlanding adventure across the wilds of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The Overlanders’ Handbook is written in the same entertaining yet clear jargon-free English for which Chris’s other books are known – it doesn’t assume you know your plug gap from a radiator cap. This second edition has been re-researched and updated into a more compact book published as a paperback, rather than a hardback as before.

Includes:

1. Planning – When to go; typical costs; documentation; sponsorship; early overland journeys.
2. Vehicle choice and preparation – The Overlanders’ Handbook is the most comprehensive account in print, covering everything from adapting a cheap car to equipping a campervan or 4×4 for months on the road, or even building and outfitting your own accommodation module to mount on an all-terrain truck chassis.
3. Life on the road – How to handle dodgy borders, haggle over a purchase, treat a dodgy stomach and cope with crazy driving conditions. Guidance on wild camping; navigation and mapping strategies; onward shipping; advice for solo women overlanders; travelling with children or with pets; vehicle repairs and troubleshooting; and off-road driving techniques.
4. Continental route outlines – Guidelines on both popular and obscure overland routes through Africa, Asia and Latin America. Includes easiest borders and best seasons, visa strategies, danger zones and regional highlights.
5. Overlanders’ Tales – Half a dozen accounts of global adventures lasting months or even years in vans, 4x4s and all-terrain trucks – from contributors aged from 9 to 69.
6. Supported by the online resource: www.overlanders-handbook.com