New cycle-touring book to read :-)

[eleanor from nz]

Unleashed in New Zealand some five months ago, Llamas and Empanadas is now available to the rest of the world through the wonderful medium of the internet! Hoorah.
It's a personal account of a 5,500 kilometre bike tour through South America that I made in 2004, visiting Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. I never actually planned to write a book, but when I returned home, sun-blistered and brain-frazzled, I started typing and just couldn't stop.
Writing Llamas and Empanadas turned out to be equally as challenging and satisfying as the cycle-tour it describes. The one notable difference being that I got fatter rather than thinner along the way :-)

Below is a link to the Penguin website where you can read a bit about it.

http://www.penguin.co.nz/afa.asp?idW...&SID=858711552

and you can order it here:

http://www.amazon.ca/Llamas-Empanada...8469337&sr=1-1

And if you want to see more photos from the trip, go here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleanor...7600258178818/

I hope you enjoy reading it,
eleanor meecham
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