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Date de parution
31 janvier 2020
EAN13
9781528970006
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
31 janvier 2020
EAN13
9781528970006
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
The North Cape
A Journey by Motorbike (Travelogue)
John Brooke
Austin Macauley Publishers
2020-01-31
The North Cape About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Introduction Departure from Nice (Nice to Oslo: 2234 Kilometres) From Oslo to Trondheim via Lillehammer (501 Kilometres) North from Trondheim to Mosjoen (438 Kilometres) Mosjoen to Narvik (511 Kilometres) Crossing the Arctic Circle From Narvik to the Alta (509 Kilometres) Alta to the North Cape (237 Kilometres)
About the Author
Born in 1942, the author is a retired medical doctor who has worked in the United Kingdom, France and later in Chad, Central Africa, where he worked as a volunteer doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières.
He has developed a taste for travel and finds the motorbike to be the ideal means both for travel and exploration.
Dedication
To Sheena, Nicholas and Catherine for their support.
Copyright Information ©
John Brooke (2020)
The right of John Brooke to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
ISBN 9781528939621 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781528970006 (ePub e-book)
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First Published (2020)
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Other Books by the Same Author:
The Physiological Basis of Immediate Care Medicine
Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1999
Monothéisme, La Voie vers le Désequilibre et le Conflit
Editions Persée, Aix-en-Provence, France 2009
Monotheism, the Route to Disharmony, Divisions and Conflict
Austin Macauley Publishers, London 2018
Contributor to the following book:
Principles and Practice of Trauma Nursing
(Edited by Rose Ann O’Shea)
Elsevier Churchill Livingston, London 2005
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Route to the roof of Europe:
From Nice, France, to the North Cape of Norway
Introduction
The North Cape of Norway is situated at the northern tip of Norway at a latitude of 71°16’N. It is the most northerly point of Europe.
My first awareness of this isolated cape, known as the North Cape or Nordkapp was in the summer of 2014. Visiting Norway and Sweden, I met fellow motorcyclists, some of whom were on their way to the North Cape.
I was astonished to learn from these fellow travellers, that from Oslo, they still had over 2,000 kilometres of travel to accomplish, before they would reach the North Cape. I had known the outline of the map of Norway since primary school days, but had no idea that the distance from the southern and most populated part of the country to its northern extremity was so great.
In February 2017, the Moto Magazine in France published an article by two intrepid motor cyclists who had made the journey from Paris to the North Cape in winter. Their account of the journey, plus the photos of an icicle bedecked bike with spiked tyres that needed to be changed regularly was most impressive a
