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ENGLISH, SOLITAIRE, COWBOY, CUCKOO…

Mike Leaver

ISBN 978-1-83574-029-3

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Publication: 29 AUGUST 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740293
Price: £11.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 300 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: DNC Memoir

Author location: North Wales
Comparative title: 9781915122513 Yeti Seeks Mate

• The second memoir of the author of Yeti Seeks
Mate, Nork from Nowhere and The Icecream
Terrorist.
• Explores themes of overcoming adversity,
sticking to your principles and discovering the
Path to Happiness.
• Follows Mike on his adventure across the globe,
from the streets of Birmingham to Moroccan
Mountains.

Mike Leaver lives off-grid in a self-converted, static truck in This bizarre-but-true autobiography chronicles Mike Leaver's
Snowdonia. In just four years, he has written his two-part madcap travels and death-defying misadventures
autobiography and rst three saga novels – all largely on an old laptop as a solo mountaineer.
by candlelight in his lorry! Like Alan Bennett's London character The
Lady in The Van, 71-year-old Mike has become a well-known In pioneering Eddie-The-Eagle style, Mike overcomes childhood
eccentric around his adopted home in North Wales, and throughout illness, climbing Birmingham's post-war bombsites, to build
the UK, thanks to media publicity. He enjoys outdoor adventure, table lifelong resilience to endure alone in often wild and perilous
environments.
tennis, and chess.
Ride with Mike's on his adapted motorbike as he tackles serious
winter climbing in Snowdonia (featuring a miraculous, split-
second rescue), the Lake District (getting hopelessly lost), and
the Ben Nevis massif (with a Hogmanay Party on summit). Then
brave a classic 1970s Brit-abroad road trip to the French Alps –
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Join Mike in his self-converted truck as he travels to North Africa,
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0116 279 2299 snow! Share his epic driving escapade to the High Arctic's winter
wilderness: barely surviving Scandinavia's three highest peaks in
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change Finland, Sweden, and Norway, and crawling frozen back to his
without notice. 08/03/2024
lorry!