Lone rider : the first British woman to motorcycle around the world
In the early 1980s, after finishing her architecture degree and splitting up with her boyfriend, Elspeth Beard set off (almost on a whim) to ride her BMW motorcycle around the world, a feat that very few men and no woman had by then achieved. Two and a half years later, Elspeth returned to London several stones lighter, decades wiser, feeling triumphant. She'd ridden through post-revolutionary Iran while it was at war with Iraq and closed to West...
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