Just Crazy Enough To Work: How to Fail on the Silk Road

By Stu Nugent

Stu Nugent was never a good candidate for a round-the-world so cycling trip. He was, and remains, a coward. In a flash of uncharacteristic daring, influenced by alcohol and a traumatic brain injury, he attempted to cycle the Northern Silk Road, from Shanghai to Europe. He failed. He failed dramatically. Against a backdrop of the world's most staggering, awe-inspiring landscapes, he was forced to smoke opium at gunpoint, attacked by a snake in a remote Kyrgyz river, robbed at gunpoint by the police, and eventually imprisoned in anonymous jail somewhere in the Kazakh steppe. How did it all go so wrong? "An absolutely spectacular spinning account of The Silk Road, from an excellent storyteller." - Wanderlust "There is an account of beauty here, but also of vulnerability. A very unusual story, that left me dizzy." - Verge

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09T2PV8LB
• ISBN13: 9798420204917
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"