Digital Swaggie Publishing

Travel Memoirs, Sense of Place Essays and Equipment and Travel Guides

Digital Swaggie Publishing provides tales of adventure from around the world, it is an indie book publisher that enables real stories by real people. 

Australian Motorcycle Adventure Series

The first two books of the Australian Motorcycle Adventure Series have been published. These books provide a guide and a humorous adventure narrative to riding some of the most iconic trails in Queensland, including riding to Cape York.

Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas

Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas is a travel memoir about riding an adventure motorcycle through Queensland. It follows the first time adventure travel of one man who is struggling with life, and finding the system is pushing him down. Something needs to change as he feels his mental health declining. Then a song from the past ignites a dream he once had, a dream to ride around Australia on a motorcycle.

He buys a motorcycle who he names “Emu” and together they venture into the Australian Outback. Along the way they discover historical facts long forgotten, encounter ghostly events and lose money betting on chickens and flies.

This memoir is sometime scary, sometimes enlightening but mostly humorous.

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Red Dust and Rainforests

Red Dust and Rainforests is a travel memoir that continues the journey of discovery first started in Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas. However, it is a story in its own right as the author continues to mature as an off-road motorcycle rider. This book is consists of three separate but interconnected travel adventures that culminate in riding to the northernmost tip of Australia, Cape York.

Red Dust and Rainforests explores the importance of preparation, confidence and the role mates play in an adventurous life.

On completion of this book the reader will have travelled through 3/4 of Queensland, over 20,000 kilometres of the best most interesting adventure motorcycle riding in the world. It is filled with discovery and that quintessential Australian humour.

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