Timeless on the Silk Road

Timeless On The Silk Road

An Odyssey from London to Hanoi

Heather Ellis

As well as battling with endless bad roads and, often worse, endless bad bureaucracy, Heather is also fighting a killer disease. That in the end she overcomes them all-roads, bureaucrats and the killer disease feels like a miracle in all sorts of ways.

Tony Wheeler, author, travel writer and co-founder of Lonely Planet

The road may be silken but it’s far from smooth. Heather Ellis delivers a devastating punch and that’s even before the going gets tough.

Ted Simon, author of Jupiter’s Travels

An extraordinary journey.Astounding, inspiring, a testament to the human spirit.

After riding her motorcycle across Africa, Heather Ellis is diagnosed with HIV in London when she has the test for a Russian visa. She is thirty years old and is given five years to live. It is 1995 when death from AIDS is inevitable. Timeless On The Silk Road is the story of what happens next.

What unfolds is a journey of courage, hardship and immense natural beauty as she rides along the fabled Silk Roads of antiquity to Australia.

Believing this is her last adventure, her one last search for meaning, Heather’s journey ultimately becomes one of destiny. Infused with a deep spiritual power, it is also a story that leaves the reader considering their own ‘time less’ journey called life.

Heather travels into Central Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union where she crosses deserts and is touched by the ancient world of Islam. She rides into the land of the heavenly mountains and discovers the ancient traditions of the nomads. She ventures into the vastness of Siberia’s Altai mountains where she is welcomed into the homes of Kazakhs and Russians alike. And in China, she is repeatedly told there will soon be a new world order.

Timeless on the Silk Road (Phonte Publishing, April 2019), is Heather’s eagerly anticipated second book and follows Ubuntu: One Woman’s Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa (Nero/Black Inc. 2016, Illuminatio 2017 Poland), a travel memoir about a life-changing adventure into the soul of Africa. Ubuntu received many positive reviews and continues to be listed as a bestseller in travel on Amazon. And was endorsed by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild.

Heather has worked as a radiation safety technician, a motorcycle courier in London, a journalist with News Ltd and in communications in international development.

She was diagnosed with HIV in London in 1995 and nearly died from AIDS in Australia in 1997 after her motorcycle ride across Central Asia. Heather is the current chair of Positive Women Victoria, Australia’s only fully funded community organization for women living with HIV. Heather is also a motivational speaker and lives in the Yarra Valley, Australia with her three children, where she is writing her next book, a novel. And she still rides motorcycles.

ISBN: 978-0-6484969-0-8 RRP: $29.99 *244 pages RELEASED: 8 April 2019

Contact: Heather Ellis p: 0425 720 193 e: h.ellis@bigpond.com

To buy the book visit: www.heather-ellis.com www.phontepublishing.com