This book has never been published, but it should have been. On one level it's a travel story about riding a truck that is delivering a computer from the south of England to the head office of the Bank of Uzbekistan, in Tashkent, but it's more than that.
It's also a celebration of trade and trucking, and how they contributed to the development and still contribute to the maintenance of modern civilization.
This trip followed one of the routes of the old Silk Road and while we never actually entered China, we passed within sight of mountains within China. One of the drivers in our group route was robbed, another foiled an attempted robbery and two of them had to patch up one truck after a breakdown in Siberia, hundreds of miles from help.
I compare this trip to the old days of the Silk Road, and the comparison is not a stretch. In fact the Silk Road is now opening up again, and the truckers and traders who travel it are writing new chapters in the history of trade and adventure.