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Monica Joseph

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Sydney, Australia

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http://www.theworldonamotorbike.com

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Travel, Memoir

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Monica Joseph is a social worker and modern-day adventure traveller. She has written her first book Keep Moving: Tokyo to Cape Town by Motorbike after a tough and rewarding year on the road on her bike accompanied by her husband Simon. They live on five acres in rural New South Wales. Their three grown children live scattered elsewhere. Monica cooks, gardens, reads books and occasionally rides her motorbike.

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Keep Moving: Tokyo to Cape Town by Motorbike

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Monica Joseph liked Heidi Madden's review of The Cook's Tour: "“To travel, with all your days planned and all your tickets arranged, seems a pointless exercise, for how then do you find the chance meeting, the odd restaurant, the unexpected kindness? And if there are none of those, why go?” This quote beautifull" Read more of this review »
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Monica Joseph and 8 other people liked pierce geary's review of Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World: "The last 20 or so pages gave me a sense of why this book was written to an extent that the preceding 280 or so didn’t. I kept hoping for Beard’s revelations and self-actualization but it didn’t come until years after her journey around the world when" Read more of this review »
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Monica Joseph liked Selina's review of Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World: "Her journey would be interesting if it wasn’t for her unpalatable personality. She has something negative to say about every country, and of course I personally take offense to how she describes America. It’s like every experience is worse than the o" Read more of this review »
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Monica Joseph liked Richard W's review of Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World: "Boring and uninspiring, poorly written stream of consciousness. The author fumbles from one delusion to the next painting herself as either a victim or hero in her own mind. She seems like a truly revolting and genuinely bad person. Less a book about" Read more of this review »
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