‘Better than all the riding animals on earth’

Before he was of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence was just an airman in the RAF, expressing the depression and squalor of military life post WWI in a series of articles that were later assembled into The Mint. One of those articles, “The Road” is perhaps the the most descriptive account of a fast motorcycle ride ever put down in words. Here it is. — Ed.

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