Tea and Grit
A Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road
$39.19
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2026
Summary
In 2010, while the US Government is hunting down Osama bin Laden in the Middle East, Helen Watson and her husband Ed set off on a cycling expedition from Glasgow to China. Driven by a desire to understand the world beyond the media portrayal of George W. Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’, the couple pedal 15,000 km along the Silk Road ancient trade routes that were undergoing rapid modernisation. Crossing deserts and mountains, minefields and military zones, they reach Muslim China via Syria, Turkey, I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804693544 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804693545 |
| Author: | Helen Watson |
| Publisher: | Bradt Travel Guides |
| Imprint: | Bradt Travel Guides |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 492g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 131mm x 199mm |
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Helen Watson
Born in Scotland and raised in Switzerland, Helen Watson is addicted to travel that is both physically and culturally challenging. In 2010, she cycled 15,000 km from Scotland to China, inspired by the hospitality of people along the Silk Road - and later dismayed by the subsequent refugee crisis following the Arab Spring. Watson has captured the experiences in her first book: Tea and Grit: a Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road. She has previously won travel-writing competitions in the Telegraph, twice been shortlisted for the Bradt Guides/Independent on Sunday New Travel Writer of the Year Award and contributed to Bradt’s Tajikistan guidebook. Living in the Scottish Highlands with her travel companion and husband, Ed, she works in wildlife conservation.
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