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Morocco Overland: A Route & Planning Guide - Southern Morocco - From the Atlas to the Sahara for 4x4, motorcycle, van & mountainbike (Trailblazer)
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About Morocco Overland: A Route & Planning Guide
Product Description For the independently-mobile traveller the mountains and deserts of southern Morocco are a year-round destination offering a thrilling variety of experiences. Now in full colour and covering nearly 12,000km from the High Atlas to the Mauritanian border, Morocco Overland features detailed GPS off-road routes for 4x4s, motorcycles and mountain bikes as well as scenic byways suitable for any vehicle. The book also includes guidance on choosing and preparing vehicles, the best places and times to go, getting to Morocco as well as local fly-drive options and off-road driving and riding techniques. With 40 pages of maps and more than 65 easy-to-follow-routes ranging from High Atlas trails reaching 3000m to arid canyons winding past hidden Berber villages and from the Atlantic surf to former Dakar Rally pistes, this comprehensive route and planning guide will appeal to both the first timer looking to dip their toe in Africa and to the seasoned adventurer. About the Author In 1981, aged 21, Chris Scott's first desert trip ground to a halt somewhere around 21° N, 6° E with a split fuel tank – a pretty normal Saharan introduction it seems.During the eighties, working as a courier in London, Chris returned to the desert every other year and in 1989 organised his first 'Sahara Motorcycle Tour' which only one bike completed in full. tells that story and the best-selling fills out the London years in between.Recognising these recurring difficulties in the desert, he prepared a report for the Royal Geographical Society which grew to become the current , now in its seventh edition after over 25 years in print.In 1991 Rough Guides asked Chris to co-author their Australia guide and he's been writing since then. In 1998 he decided to focus on the Sahara, which has always been his passion, and began work on . The second edition was published in 2005.As well as writing for various travel, 4WD and motorcycle magazines and newspapers over the years (including modelling for Esquire as an ‘explorer'), Chris is a regular guest speaker at events including the Adventure Travel Show. He's advised scores of desert-bound travellers as well as professionals from novelists and photographers, to the BBC and ITV. He produced adventure travel dvds to accompany his books which have featured on National Geographic Channel, Sky TV and Channel 4 and occasionally leads tours in the Sahara.The was published in 2011 – a worldwide route and planning guide for cars, 4x4s and trucks. It's the definitive manual for planning and undertaking a vehicle-dependent overlanding adventure across the wilds of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The second edition is due in 2017.The second edition of was published in 2013, and Chris has also updated several books in Trailblazer's British Walking Guides series.Visit the websites for Chris's Trailblazer guides:
