Bill De Garis

2020: The Year 400

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We follow Wally and his girlfriend Rangi in New Zealand as they try to stay alive in the post apocolyptic world brought on by the earth being hit by a large meteorite. Then we fast forward to the year 400, 1000 years into the future and find a world very different to the one we know.This novel is based in part on some of the authors adventures on his travels back in the late 1950's up through to the present day.

Produktdetails

• 2020 Nr.4
• Verlag: Rebekah Isert
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 195g
• ISBN-13: 9780993681783
• ISBN-10: 0993681786
• Artikelnr.: 57992889

Autorenporträt

Bill (Billy d) de Garis was born in England, grew up in New Zealand and spent several years travelling around the world. First on a 250cc Jawa motorbike from Sydney, Australia through India, Afghanistan and Iran to England; then an epic journey in an old Morris Isis shooting-brake (running mostly on bald tyres salvaged from rubbish dumps around London) together with two New Zealand friends on their honeymoon. The journey started in London, went across the Sahara desert and darkest Africa and ended up in Kenya. He now lives in Port Moody, a city-suburb of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. He has been writing short stories and poetry since the late 1960's. He is better known as an off-road motorcycle competitor in East Africa (seven times Kenya motorcycle champion) but also raced on tarseal-in India and Sri Lanka he won several roadraces including the Air India Grand Prix in Bombay (now Mumbai). He is also the first person to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,340ft) on a motorbike (250cc CZ). He now competes on a Gas Gas Trials motorbike in the US National Trials Championship.