LIST OF MONGOL RALLY BOOKS

Thinking of doing the Mongol Rally? If you need a little more inspiration then check out this list of Mongol Rally books written by previous Mongol Rally Teams.

Mongol Rally Books

Convoi Exceptionnel: A Mongol Rally Adventure By Alastair Bruce Cameron

One of the most useful and interesting books about the Mongol Rally by a team that completed the rally in 2019. Includes a very detailed guide to the Mongol Rally in the back listing all kit and costs. Away From Keyboard, Don’t Smell My Shoes, Two Fake Yanks and a Scot, Rally McRally Face, Mini Adventurers and Cunning Stunts unite to create Convoi Exceptionnel. Could a Mongol Rally Convoy be better named?

Borders, Bandits, and Baby Wipes: A Big Adventure in a Tiny Car By Bassam Tarazi

Borders, Bandits, and Baby Wipes is a story about the kind of adventures we all said we'd have one day but never do. It's about a world beyond our expectations, and our place in it. It's a must read if you need to be inspired! Bassam Tarazi and two friends signed on for the infamous Mongol Rally, a nearly 10,000-mile road trip from London to Mongolia through terrain that would make a mountain goat's knees buckle, in a vehicle that was little more than a go-kart.

You Want Breakfast Now? A Mongol Rally Team Experience By James Druce

Three island boys from the Isles of Scilly take on one of the last great challenges of the world.Through 15 countries, Team Scilly Mission are faced with extraordinary challenges; corrupt police, chased by armed riders, impounded at a border for days, driving through a 46c heatwave, crossing through rivers and overcoming breakdowns hundreds of miles from civilization. This is the story, written on the road as it happened.

Mongol Rally - Three Weeks Into The Unknown By John Irving

If this desn't make you want to read this book, then nothing will........ 'On the face of it, all we had to do was get from London to Mongolia. But looking deeper it was going to be a lot less simple than it had first appeared. We had minimal planning, bought a horribly underpowered car that was fit for scrap, had no external support, no prior expedition experience or survival knowledge and decided to do it all in the name of charity.  Some experiences defied belief, some were mildly terrifying but there are none that I will ever forget.'

Rub-a-Dub-Dub Three Men And A Tub - Mongol Rally 2016 By Richard J Horton, Caleb Murray & Alex G Alford

These three intrepid explorers thought "B*llocks to tarmac, ABS and gadgets that help you find your navel, it's time we ventured into the unknown". Follow the epic journey of Alex, Caleb and Rich along with Marigold, their 1997 Gold Nissan Micra, and Bilbo, the world's most well-travelled bathtub, as they drive to Mongolia and back again in 71 days. If nothing goes wrong, everything has gone wrong. Neither their car, nor their lives will ever be the same again.

"See Ya Later Shit Lords!" By Edward Blackwell

This is a collection of the blogs that were written every day whilst undertaking the Mongol Rally. These blogs are a frank and truthful account of what it is like to spend five weeks on the road in a tiny red car, travelling over 10,000 miles, across a third of the world's surface, through 20 countries. The Mongol Rally is one of the toughest adventures in the world and this book gets you to the highs and lows as if you were in the passenger seat. 

Mission Mongolia: Two Men, One Van, No Turning Back By David Treanor

It was an empty landscape now with huge horizons in every direction, a compressed, steam-rollered desert where man had no place. We lacked the skills to carry out even basic fixes. If the van stopped working we were really stuck. No one knew where we were and our last mobile phone signal had been 150 miles ago.

Fifty-something and tired of arguing with John Humphrys over the day’s headlines, BBC journalists Geoff and David found themselves eagerly volunteering for redundancy. But rather than easing into retirement with the odd round of golf, they decided to buy a van and drive off to Mongolia. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time…