2020: Africa

by Bill De Garis

Overview

The children are out playing in the forest near Horsmanden about 30 miles south of London when the first Nuke hits the British capital...The worlds civilisation has come to an end and only a very few lucky and resourceful people survive.This story follows the children and others they meet as they try to get to somewhere safe to live.The novel is based in part on some of the authors adventures on his travels back in the late 1960's up through to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993681745
Publisher:	Bill de Garis
Publication date:	09/23/2016
Series:	2020 , #3
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

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.