My copy came today. Very nice binding and printing of pictures and text. Quality paper.
I flipped through it, then spot read some pages, told my wife we should have taken this trip, and now I started reading it from the beginning.
This is not a coffee table picture book - it's a detailed expedition diary laced with extremely nice photos.
(If I had to complain, I wish there was a separate folio of my favorite pictures. Some had been posted on this forum.)
The book fascinates me in its details, and the directness of the writing. It's not "the view from a helicopter" and it's not a "sweet sappy ever-so-happy" travelogue. It's a real solid documentary and commentary of what it was like travelling around the world on a motorcycle. The negative comments are in there alongside the positive comments.
For guys like me, it's closest we're going to get to real thing.
*Very* happy that I dropped the $$$ on this.
Very sorry that I'm not about 40 years younger. 😛