I am never reckless, but adventures are an inherently risky business and so they should be. ‘And the more other people become involved the less risk you can take. ‘There would be some significant health and safety issues with backing for a trip to the Arabian Peninsula – it’s never out of the headlines,’ he says. It’s a financial risk he’s willing to take to buy back the freedoms he lost to sponsorship.
Interestingly, Wood has dec-lined any external funding for his Arabian trip, paying the whole six-figure bill from his own pocket. The two volumes stand in contrast to each other: one is a nobly impoverished trek from Europe to Asia, the other is a brave but far more commercially informed adventure. His latest book, Eastern Horizons, about a youthful Silk Road hitchhike, is out now and Walking The Americas, an expedition through Central America, is published in paperback this month.
Along the way he meets some people who showed great hospitality, while others would rather have murdered him.Levison Wood has never been a man for whom home and hearth exerts a greater pull than the open road A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history degree in the bag, an army career already planned and a shoestring budget of GBP750 - including for the flight home - he was determined to find out more about the countries of the Caucasus and beyond - and meet the people who lived and worked there.EASTERN HORIZONS is a true traveller's tale in the tradition of the best of the genre, populated by a cast of eccentric characters from mujahideen fighters to the Russian mafia. Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail.
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