About the Author

Tim Slessor worked for the BBC for nearly 50 years. He is the author of More than Cowboys: Travels through the History of the American West, also available from Signal Books. TimeOut called it 'perfect escapist entertainment as well as deep vicarious pleasure.'

Reviews

'An altogether delightful book... written with humour and beguiling gusto.' --Times Literary Supplement; 'I think that this is the best travel book I have ever read.'--The Motor; 'Fifty years on, their journey and its telling have become both an epic and a classic.'--Sir David Attenborough