A loaded BMW R1150GS and its rider in silhouette against a wide sky

The World
Through The Visor

Ferdia Durkin

overland explorer and travel writer

Ferdia Durkin tipping his hat beside a small Honda motorcycle in morning light
Australia, on a Honda 125.

Europe, Australia, Africa

Ferdia Durkin is an Irish filmmaker, explorer and travel writer. With his motorbike, Ferdia has travelled in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. His features have appeared in Adventure Motorcycle Magazine, Australian Road Rider, and BIKE.

A typed manuscript page with the title written by hand: The World Through The Visor, to Baku and Back

The first book is on its way

From the Atlantic to the Caspian Sea and everything in between. A journey into the heart of things.

Ferdia leaves his adoptive home of Andalusia to ride east with no plan or destination. With a tent strapped to his father’s aging motorcycle he leaves in search of the ancient heartlands of the Mediterranean and Anatolia, only to find the present more inescapable the further into the past he falls…

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A copy of BIKE magazine open on desert sand at the Nothing, Personal spread, with riding gloves and a BMW key beside it and a loaded BMW GS out of focus in the sunset desert behind