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A Family’s Epic Mid-century Journey Overlanding Africa in a 1200cc Volkswagen

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Beetling Beyond BordersPick your way onto the road.

A hardback for the shelf, a paperback for the rucksack, an audio edition for the long drive, and, for exactly a hundred of you, the numbered Premiere. Every copy comes straight from me.

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The Beetle, loaded with luggage, on a beach
The linen-bound Premiere Edition of Beetling Beyond Borders on a wooden table
Only 100

Limited · numbered · signed

The Premiere Edition

Linen-bound, stamped in copper foil, individually numbered and signed by me and Little Marc. When the hundred are gone, the road closes.

  • Casebound in linen, hot-stamped in copper foil
  • Bespoke printed endpapers and colour illustrations
  • Numbered, and signed twice

€ 42,45Add to basket

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The standard editions

The same story, your way.

Same journey, same Beetle, same long list of things going wrong. Pick the format that suits where you’ll be reading it.

Back the next print run

Not after a book? Help me make one.

The next print run is funded by a tiny team of friends. Back it at any level and your name can appear on the thank-you page of the book itself. Add as many as you like: it all adds up beautifully.

Project Partner

Help light the fuse on the film.

The pages are written. The film begins with the quiet, essential work of shaping a true mid-century adventure into something cinematic: treatment, script and creative vision. As a project partner you help carry this story from memory into motion.

€ 1.000,00Add to basket

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Not sure which one’s for you?

Ask me. I’ll happily talk editions, gifts, and what happens when the Beetle meets a desert, and I answer messages myself.

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