Primrose Roads - E-book - ePub

"Primrose Roads: Explore the World on its Most Dangerous Roads" is an adventure-filled journey along some of the most dangerous roads and highways in the world. It gives a glimpse of what motivates people to seek a journey along such hazardous roads and the possible rewards such a journey can offer. It takes the reader into the towering mountains of India and Asia to travel along the Khardung La Pass in the Karakoram mountain range to exotic Buddhist temples.
It leads them to the subtle beauty of China's remote mountain country and tells the reader what it's like to travel at dizzying heights as the body changes to accommodate the thin atmosphere. "Primrose Roads" also accurately describes roads that lack pavement or routine maintenance, often climbing up the side of a mountain and providing either minimal guardrails or even none at all. The reader will travel through areas of the world with seismic instability from the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates, viewing magnificent mountain and ocean scenery along the way.
Hairpin turns that teeter over cliffs dropping into deep mountain gorges become even more exciting as the reader learns about the local history and legend. There is an insight into how the local communities deal with landslides, falling rocks, and unpredictable rainy seasons.  Reading "Primrose Roads'' will take you into some of the world's most extreme environmental conditions and show you what you'll need to survive.
You'll take a look at geographical challenges like frozen arctic tundra and sweltering deserts from the comfort of your armchair, allowing you to fantasize about what these journeys may be like if you were bold enough to try making them. You'll also learn that even these extreme environments have a beauty and majesty of their own that you cannot find anywhere else, and you'll learn about some of the people who live in them every day of the year.  This exciting and thought-provoking book will even take you along roads that have a reputation for their paranormal activity, so be ready to stop your car at a moment's notice should a ghost appear in the middle of the road.
Learn about the local urban legends that are the tales of those who died along these highways, and hear the stories of encounters that both residents and tourists have had with things that nobody can explain. Then, finally, take a futuristic journey into outer space via a real live space shuttle to the International Space Station, where you can gaze upon our whole planet Earth as you travel in orbit around it at thousands of miles per hour.
So get yourself a cup of tea, and enjoy the ride!