Samosir Books announce the launch of the classic USA road trip comedy, Leaving London, by the Raven Brothers.
(TRAVPR.COM) UK - July 13th, 2012 - The sudden break up with girlfriend Emily Willow finds Simon Raven, ex-amateur rock God and bored internet producer, on a Boeing 747 bound for Seattle. Led by his twin brother, Chris, who is more than happy to exchange a career in fashion photography for the open road, they embark on a buttock-clenching journey of paranoia and self-doubt, as they traverse Interstate Highway 15 through backcountry America.
Along the way our hapless heroes bumble through bear infested wilderness, meet the eccentric and plain weird on the American freeway, escape a bullwhip wielding maniac in Montana and survive the evils of Las Vegas. Testing their friendship to the limit as they battle to reach their nirvana, which exists in the form of the bikini beaches of California, the brothers find inspiration on a journey that exposes the stark truth about work and relationships and which asks the question - what do you really want to do with your life?
The ‘Ravens on the Road’ trilogy follows twin brothers and UK authors, Simon Raven and Chris Raven, during their transformation from city dwellers to overland travel writers and bumbling explores. Not always getting it right, our hapless heroes reveal the ups and downs of life on the road and explore the act of leaving the comfort of a secure life in exchange for a world of excitement and adventure. Meeting the local people and often finding themselves in sticky situations during their journeys, the Raven Brothers get to the heart of what it feels like to travel in a place and have been credited for their fast paced writing style which makes the reader feel like they are very much with them on their odysseys into the unknown.
The three books in the ‘Ravens on the Road’ trilogy cover three epic overland adventures across the USA, Russia and South America. Download the first chapter of each book for free from the Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk website and prepare to go on an adventure that might change your life…or, at the very least, make you feel better about your own…
Out Now! Travel Trilogy by the Raven Brothers
Leaving London: Bumbling Across Backcountry USA
Disillusioned with life in the big city, two bumbling brothers embark on a road trip from Seattle to California through backcountry USA.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008CN553O/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008CN553O/
2. Driving the Trans-Siberian: The Ultimate Road Trip Across Russia
With little knowledge of wilderness survival or the workings of the internal combustion engine the Raven brothers attempt to drive acrossRussiaandSiberiain their clapped out Ford Sierra.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008CPO9T8/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008CPO9T8/
3. Carnival Express: A South America Adventure
Two struggling writers embark on an epic journey across South America in their quest to write another book and hit the big time.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008CPTACE
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008CPTACE
Back Covers:
Leaving London:
The sudden break up with girlfriend Emily Willow finds Simon Raven, ex-amateur rock God and bored internet producer, on a Boeing 747 bound for Seattle. Led by his twin brother, Chris, who is more than happy to exchange a career in fashion photography for the open road, they embark on a buttock-clenching journey of paranoia and self-doubt, as they traverse Interstate Highway 15 through backcountry America.
Along the way our hapless heroes bumble through bear infested wilderness, meet the eccentric and plain weird on the American freeway, escape a bullwhip wielding maniac in Montana and survive the evils of Las Vegas. Testing their friendship to the limit as they battle to reach their nirvana, which exists in the form of the bikini beaches of California, the brothers find inspiration on a journey that exposes the stark truth about work and relationships and which asks the question - what do you really want to do with your life?
Driving the Trans-Siberian
Ever had the desire to jump in your car and keep driving, to wave goodbye to routine and commitment, to drive into the unknown with your arm out of the window hungry for adventure? Well, that is precisely what twin brothers and UK authors, Chris Raven and Simon Raven decided to do whilst stacking boxes of frozen oven chips in a minus 30°C freezer. With a squeaky foot pump and an SAS Survival Guide, the brothers fired up their rusty Ford Sierra and headed east. Not being petrol heads and having very little knowledge of the internal combustion engine, with luck they hoped to reach Poland and maybe even the Baltic State of Estonia; where lived, according to legend, the most beautiful girls on the planet.
After driving for six weeks and clocking up over 11,000 miles, quite literally living in the car, they miraculously arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in Siberia on the Sea of Japan. What they had in fact done was to drive the entire length of the amazing new Amur Highway before it was finished, which crosses Russia in a 6,200-mile swath of cracked tarmac and potholes. Along the way our trusty heroes drink vodka with Chechen criminals, escape highway robbery, trade banana flavoured condoms with Russian cops, meet the eccentric and plain weird at truck stops in darkest Siberia, endure torturous road conditions and have a race to the finish with the Germans. Surviving this journey by the skin of their teeth, the brothers are forced to confront their worst fears in this toe-curling comedy that is both gripping and surreal.
Carnival Express
Meet the Raven brothers. With two self-published travel books under their belts and a garden shed full of unsold copies, the struggling writers and professional bumbling explorers are in serious need of promotion. In a bid to salvage their failing careers, Simon, the melancholy shoe-gazer and, Chris, the happy-go-lucky rock of the duo, pack their pants and fly to South America in their quest to write another book and hit the big time.
From bull's testicles in Buenos Airesto bums and boobs on the beaches of Brazil, the Raven brothers embark on a new comedy adventure as they attempt to traverse the Trans-oceanic highway by express bus from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast of South America. Not always getting it right, our hapless heroes tango through the Argentinean vineyards, cycle to the Moon in the Atacama Desert, survive death roads in the Peruvian Andes and venture deep into the heart of the Amazon jungle with only one mission in mind – to go in search of the real carnival!
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