A Short Ride in the Jungle

The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military engineering in history. But since the end of the Vietnam War much of this vast transport network has been reclaimed by jungle, while remaining sections are littered with a deadly legacy of unexploded bombs. For Antonia, the chance to explore the Trail before it's lost forever was a personal challenge she couldn't ignore - yet it would sometimes be a terrifying journey.

Setting out from Hanoi on an ageing Honda Cub, she spent the next two months riding 2000 miles through the mountains and jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Battling inhospitable terrain and multiple breakdowns, her experiences ranged from the touching to the hilarious. On the way she met met former American fighter pilots, tribal chiefs, illegal loggers and bomb disposal experts.

The story of her brave journey is thrilling and poignant: a unique insight into a little known face of Southeast Asia.

‘I enormously enjoyed every page’. Dervla Murphy

‘Truly wonderful, a book after my own heart.’ Ted Simon

‘A jaw-dropping adventure, part travelogue, part thriller…an adventure-fuelled, fascinating ride.’ Cosmopolitan magazine.

A Short Ride in the Jungle is also available as an audio book, via Audible, Google Play, Apple, Scribd etc.

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781849535434
Number of pages: 320
Edition: Paperback