Lois Pryce
| Lois Pryce | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 13, 1973 Aberdeen, UK |
| Spouse(s) | Austin Vince |
| Website | Official website |
Lois Pryce (born 13 January 1973) is a British author, journalist and a founder/curator of the Adventure Travel Film Festival. She is the author of Lois on the Loose,Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride, travel memoirs about her solo motorcycle journeys through the Americas, Africa and Iran.
She was born in Aberdeen but grew up and attended school in Bristol. She has lived in London since 1992.
She worked in the music industry in London until April 2003 when she left her position at BBC Music to make a 10-month solo motorcycle journey of approximately 20,000 miles from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. This resulted in her first book, Lois on the Loose, which was published in the UK in 2007 by Arrow, an imprint of Random House, and in the USA by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press. It has also been translated into German, Dutch and Italian. It is currently published in the USA by Lee Klancher's Octane Press.The Telegraph said it ‘Roars along at a breakneck pace and is full of snappy accounts and funny asides.’
In 2006 she made her second long-distance solo motorcycle expedition from London to Cape Town, a journey of approximately 10,000 miles. Her route involved crossing the Sahara and traversing the Congo Basin and Angola. Her book about this trip, Red Tape & White Knuckles, was published in 2008 in the UK by Arrow/Random House and in the USA by Octane Press. It was excerpted in The New York Times where it was described as ‘Breezy and upbeat ... enough to make readers reach for their helmets and aim for a remote part of the globe.’
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