Thunder and Sunshine - Around the World by Bike Part Two: Riding Home from Patagonia

<b058>(2nd Edition)</b058>

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Av Alastair Humphreys, Humphereys Alastair

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Around the World by Bike – PART TWO ‘A ferocious challenge’ Sir Ranulph Fiennes 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 tiny budget of just £7,000.Thunder and Sunshine is the sequel to the best-selling Moods of Future Joys . Here Alastair sails from Africa to South America, where he sets out to ride from the southern tip of Patagonia to northern Alaska. Crossing the Pacific, he cycles into a Siberian winter, carries on through Japan, China and, nearing the end of his journey at last, across Asia and Europe towards his home in Yorkshire

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Utgivningsdatum2015-03-09
Mått129 x 198 x 26 mm
Vikt302 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
Upplaga2
FörlagEye Books
ISBN9781903070888

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Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic Ocean and walked a lap of the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures.He is the author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.He has written eight books for Eye including the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 9–12-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. It was shortlisted for the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year.He is a qualified teacher.