Alastair Humphreys: Around the World by Bike

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At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a budget of just £7,000. From frozen Siberia tundra to the jungles of central Africa, Alastair recounts his extraordinary adventures in two parts - Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine - brought together in audiobook for the first time. Moods of Future Joys is the story of the first stage of this epic journey. Struggling with the enormity of the challenge he had set himself, Alastair recounts the hardships of the expedition with great honesty. His ride through Europe, a turbulent Middle East and down Africa is buoyed by the kindness of strangers and the thrill of the freedom of the open road.In Thunder & Sunshine, Alastair continues his journey from South Africa back to Yorkshire, via the whole of the Americas, South to North, Siberia, Japan, and back through China, Central Asia and Europe. A tale of physical and mental endurance, of taking on wilderness, loneliness and danger in a time before mobile phones and GPS - this is a refreshingly original account from one of today's great adventurers.

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Manufacturer

Alastair Humphreys (Author, Narrator), Blink Publishing (Publisher)

ASIN

B07V2B91HW

Customer Reviews Summary

Alistair's first book which took him from home, down through Africa was good. He is an honest down to earth author who tells it as it is. The good and the bad. This is something I like about him.This book took him from where he left off in the first book, in Cape town to the lowest tip of the America's, up to Alaska, Siberia and home to the UK. What a journey. He describes the people, towns, countryside, conditions, dangers, weather together with his feelings, his hopes, fears and determination as we travel though the pages with him. It seems we are there with him from the heat to the freeze from the tears to the relief and the laughter.He endured so much there were times when I wanted him to extend one part and not skip the next few days/weeks or even countries but he has had to condense a journey of many years into two volumes. I just didn't want the book to end.This is a book to take with you when you are on a ride. If it is bad for you, Alistair has endured more and it has helped make him the man is now is. He has the ant philosophy - never give up.