Braving hunger, heat exhaustion, unbearable terrain and cultures largely untouched by civilization, Dervla Murphy chronicles her determined trip through nine countries, through snow and ice in the mountains and miles of barren land in the scorching desert.
"Alistair Humphreys cycled around the world - a journey of 46,000 miles. This inspiring story traces the second leg of his travels - the length of South and North America, the breadth of Asia and back across Europe, crossing the mountains and salt-flats of South America, canoein…
Alistair Humphreys cycled around the world--a journey of 46,000 miles. This inspiring story traces the second leg of his travels--the length of South and North America, the breadth of Asia and back across Europe, crossing the mountains and salt-flats of South America, canoeing t…
"This Road I Ride is the remarkable story of one woman's solo journey around the world by bicycle,"--Amazon.com.
The adventures of the first woman - 23-year-old Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, assuming the surname Londonderry - to bicycle around the world, chronicled by her great grandnephew, Peter Zheutlin. On June 25, 1894 she left her husband and three children in Boston for fifteen months, to …
Describes how a working mother of three took a fifteen-month trip around the world on a bicycle, an epic journey that changed things for all women.
Describes how a working mother of three took a fifteen-month trip around the world on a bicycle, an epic journey that changed things for all women.
Alastair Humphreys' around-the-world journey of 46,000 miles was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget, and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans, his ride took four years to complete, on a tiny budget of hoarded student loans.