The year was 1928 when two young Hungarians decided to travel
around the world on a motorcycle. Like Robert Fulton, whose
circumnavigation of the globe is chronicled in his 1937 book "One
Man Caravan", Sulkowsky thought his was the first around-the-world
journey on a motorcycle. Sulkowsky's account of his travels,
originally published in Hungary in 1937, has now been translated
into English and published with the original photographs. The trip,
on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with sidecar, started in Paris,
France. During the next eight years Sulkowsky and his friend Gyula
Bartha travelled through Europe, Africa, the Mideast, India,
Australia, south-east Asia, China, Japan, North and South America,
and back to Europe. They earned enough money to keep travelling by
selling photographs and accounts of their experiences and giving
lectures in the many cities they visited along the way. Sulkowsky
gives a very clear-eyed view of the world in the 1930s -- a world
where the colonising influence of Europe had affected much of
Africa and Asia. He describes in detail the overwhelming effect the
British had on Indian culture and contrasts that with countries
farther east where the trappings of European dominance barely
reached beyond the major cities. Sulkowsky and Bartha experienced
the riches of sultans, witnessed primitive cultures and extreme
poverty in remote villages, travelled through wilderness with the
ever-present danger of wild animals, and traversed roads of all
descriptions. They dealt with mud, sand, extreme heat and cold, and
rivers where the motorcycle had to be taken apart to cross in a
small boat. This intelligent and engaging book offers a unique
worldview between the World Wars, flavoured by a sampling of the
great diversity of cultures and the wide variety of human life that
exists on this planet.
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