214 pages, illustrated with black and white plates. The jacket is chipped at the edges;, the back lower edge suffers from minor loss and damage from hungry insects. The fore-edge and the front end paper are lightly foxed, the front end paper also has a previous bookseller's stamp at the tail; from page 25 to page 145 the head is very lightly bumped. This does not affect the printing. For all its faults, it remains an attractive copy, clean and unmarked."Michael Marriott and his wife once crossed the Sahara in a twenty-year-old London taxi, and recounted their adventures in a book called Desert Taxi. Three years later the same urge for bizarre and cheap travel led them to set out together bound overland for Australia riding 'two-up' on a motor scooter." (Front flap)