Cycling Home From Siberia

Author : Rob Lilwall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451607873

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Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall Pdf

“ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.” Having left his job as a high-school geography teacher, Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. Cycling Home from Siberia recounts his epic three-and-a-half-year, 30,000-mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone, and Afghanistan’s war-torn Hindu Kush. A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey, providing poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world’s toughest corners.

Author : Mark Jenkins
Publisher : Modern Times
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : NWU:35556038328084

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Off the Map by Mark Jenkins Pdf

With this brilliant account of his journey—at once edge-of-your-seat exciting and literary—Mark Jenkins established himself as the master of adventure/travel writing. In 1989 he and six companions—two Americans and four Russians—set out on an arduous, first-ever crossing of Siberia by bike, cycling across rutted dirt roads, swamps, the Ural Mountains, and through Moscow and Leningrad. This beautifully repackaged edition of Jenkins's travel classic vividly chronicles the highlights of this amazing voyage, including a month spent biking through an 800-mile swamp and the team's interactions with some fascinating characters—from the widow who makes Mark sleep in her dead son's bed to the Lithuanian searching for the concentration camp where his wife spent her childhood. Combining the exhilaration of record-setting adventure with thoughtful introspection, Jenkins's words allow readers to recognize the extraordinary in the day-to-day lives of ordinary Russians. USA Today called Off the Map "a literary epic." Newsweek declared "the ornery, observant Jenkins [is] good company on every page." And Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, wrote: "Jenkins is a master of the fundamental writer's talent: an ability to see things in new ways, as no one has ever seen them before."

Author : Rob Lilwall
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444745290

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Walking Home From Mongolia by Rob Lilwall Pdf

Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China. Along the way he and his cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China's longest road tunnel, explore desolate stretches of the Great Wall and endure interrogation by the Chinese police. As they walk on through the heart of China, the exuberant hospitality of cave dwellers, coal miners and desert nomads keeps them going, despite sub-zero blizzards and the treacherous terrain. Rob writes with humour and honesty about the hardships of the walk, reflecting on the nature of pilgrimage and the uncertainties of an adventuring career. He also gives a unique insight into life on the road amid the epic landscapes and rapidly industrialising cities of backwater China.

Author : Chris Hatherly,Tim Cope
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781408852958

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Off The Rails by Chris Hatherly,Tim Cope Pdf

This is the true story of two twenty-year old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and Mongolia, to Beijing. It is as much a story of perseverance, passion, and belief as it is about the people and remarkable landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia. Tim and Chris are not just fearless adventurers but philosophers on wheels, willing and able to open themselves up to everything from the voice of the Steppes to the Russian villagers and the nomads of the Gobi desert. From this they draw an often funny, moving and inspirational tale of living out a dream. Mixed into this journey is the story of their tumultuous relationship as two opposing wills battle it out in the midst of heat, snow and hunger.

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9780803285217

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The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer by Kevin J. Hayes Pdf

Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America's roadways on two wheels and under their own pedal power. But the concept is not new. More than a century ago, George B. Thayer took his own first "century," or one-hundred-mile bicycle ride. The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer brings to life the experience of late nineteenth-century cycling through the heartfelt story of this important cycling pioneer. In 1886, just two years after his first century, Thayer rode his high wheeler across the United States, traveling from his home in Connecticut to California and back. Thayer took an indirect route without any intent to set speed records, but his trip was full of adventure nonetheless. Thayer loved going downhill, his legs over the handlebars, risking life and limb atop the large wheel on often rough and muddy roads. With aplomb and humor, he dealt with the countless other hazards he encountered, including dogs, mule teams, and wild hogs. Even bad weather and poor sleeping conditions could not keep Thayer down. After his epic tour across the United States, Thayer had the urge to cycle abroad and eventually toured England, Germany, Belgium, and Canada on his bike. His later travels were in part aided by his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut, which was the epicenter of American bicycle manufacturing in the late 1890s. In addition to telling Thayer's cycling story, Kevin J. Hayes brings to life the culture of cycling and its rise at the end of the nineteenth century, when bikes became more affordable and the nation's riding craze took off.

Author : Lonely Planet,Simon Richmond,Mark Baker,Marc Bennetts,Stuart Butler,Trent Holden,Tom Masters,Kate Morgan,Leonid Ragozin,Regis St Louis,Mara Vorhees,Ali Lemer,Tatyana Leonov
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787019423

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Lonely Planet Russia by Lonely Planet,Simon Richmond,Mark Baker,Marc Bennetts,Stuart Butler,Trent Holden,Tom Masters,Kate Morgan,Leonid Ragozin,Regis St Louis,Mara Vorhees,Ali Lemer,Tatyana Leonov Pdf

Lonely Planet's Russia is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Brush up on your Soviet history in Moscow and St Petersburg, explore European Russia and its gingerbread cottages and golden domes, or lose yourself in the wilds of Siberia and the east; all with your trusted travel companion.

Author : Russell Re Manning,Samuel Andrew Shearn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110533606

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Returning to Tillich by Russell Re Manning,Samuel Andrew Shearn Pdf

Fifty years after his death in 1965 the essays in this collection return to Paul Tillich to investigate his theology and its legacy, with a focus on contemporary British scholarship. Originating in a conference held in Oxford in 2014, the book contains 16 original contributions from a mixture of junior and more established scholars, most of whom have a connection to Britain. The contributions are diverse, but four themes emerge throughout the volume. Several essays are concerning with a characterisation of Tillich's theology. In dialogue with recent emphases on the radical Tillich, some essays suggest a more conservative estimation of Tillich's theology, rooted in the Idealist and classical Christian platonic traditions, whilst in constant engagement with changing existential situations. Secondly, and perhaps reflecting the context of religious diversity and theories of religious pluralism in Britain, many essays engage Tillich's approach to non-Christian religions. Thirdly, some essays address the importance of existentialist philosophy for Tillich, notably via an engagement with Sartre. Finally, a number of essays take up the diagnostic potential of Tillich's theology as a resource for engaging contemporary challenges.

Author : Helen Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0957660626

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A Siberian Winter's Tale - Cycling to the Edge of Insanity and the End of the World by Helen Lloyd Pdf

A Journey of Discovery driven by the Call of the Wild. In the depth of winter, Helen Lloyd spent three months cycling solo across one of the most remote, coldest inhabited regions of the planet - Siberia. In temperatures down to -50 C, she battled against the cold, overcoming her fear of wolves and falling through the ice of a frozen lake. Alone in a hibernating land with little to stimulate the senses, the biggest challenges were with her mind as she struggled with the solitude. With flashes of humour and riveting, graphic descriptions that will have you living each moment with her, Helen Lloyd describes the fear, uncertainty and joy of riding through a frozen, icy world. Yet, A Siberian Winter's Tale is a touching story full of warm-hearted moments that are gifted to Helen by strangers along the Road of Bones."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781012017

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A Traveller's Year by Anonim Pdf

A collection of anecdotes for each day of the year on the subject of travel and exploration from Charles Darwin, Michael Palin, Evelyn Waugh, and others. With an emphasis on the period 1750–1950—the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writing—this anthology features excerpts that convey men and women’s experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers such as Captains Cook and Scott to modern travel writers journeying through the contemporary world, from people who pushed back the boundaries of geographical knowledge to people who wrote about what they did on their summer holidays. The book includes an introduction, explanatory notes and mini-biographies of all the contributors, including: Gertrude Bell (woman traveller in the Middle East) James Boswell (travels in Scotland and the Hebrides) William Cobbett (Rural Rides through England) Christopher Columbus (journals of his voyages to America) Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle) Captain James Cook (voyages in the Pacific) Washington Irving (American writer travelled in Europe in first decades of nineteenth century) Edward Lear (landscape painter and nonsense writer produced journals of his travels in Greece, Corsica, Near East etc) Lewis & Clark (journals of famous journey of American exploration) William Morris (wrote a journal of a trip to Iceland in 1870s) Michael Palin (a Python abroad) Mungo Park (African explorer in early nineteenth century) Captain Robert Falcon Scott (doomed journey to South Pole) Evelyn Waugh (diaries of 1930s travels in Mediterranean and beyond) William John Wills (explorer of Australia)

Author : Alastair Humphreys,Tom Morgan-Jones
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781785630095

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The Boy Who Biked the World: Part Three by Alastair Humphreys,Tom Morgan-Jones Pdf

Tom was laughed at for day dreaming. His dreams were of being an adventurer. One day he decided to prove everyone wrong and set off cycling round the world. Parts One and Two follow Tom crossing Europe and descending Africa, then pedalling through the Americas to Alaska. In Part Three, Tom is on the last leg of his journey where he continues to discover strange and amazing sights and meet a host of fun characters. He skids through the freezing temperatures of Siberia, and in Japan even shares a steaming hot pool with some surprised monkeys. He follows the Great Wall of China towards the mysterious lands of Central Asia and on crossing the world's largest inland sea, is at last biking through Europe towards his home in Yorkshire. Based on the author's personal experiences and with engaging illustrations, maps and handwritten journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781785630866

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The Boy Who Biked the World by Alastair Humphreys Pdf

All three volumes of this bestselling adventure series collected in one ebook.Alastair Humphreys' bestselling trilogy about Tom, a young boy who dreams of becoming an adventurer and ends up cycling around the world, has entertained and inspired thousands of readers across the past decade. Now, for the first time, all three volumes are available in one specially-priced ebook omnibus.Alastair Humphreys' bestselling trilogy about Tom, a young boy who dreams of becoming an adventurer and ends up cycling around the world, has entertained and inspired thousands of readers across the past decade. Now, for the first time, all three volumes are available in one specially-priced ebook omnibus.

Author : Tim Cope,Chris Hatherly
Publisher : Penguin Global
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 0670040460

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Off the Rails by Tim Cope,Chris Hatherly Pdf

It was one of those moments when you become so deeply involved with the experience that you begin to blend with the dirt. This is the story of two twenty year old boys who travel on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia, the Gobi Desert, Mongolia to Beijing, in China. The journey takes fourteen months to complete across some of the world's most hard-to-access terrain.

Author : Tim Cope,Chris Hatherly
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780857968074

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Off The Rails by Tim Cope,Chris Hatherly Pdf

This is the true story of two twenty-year-old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and Mongolia, to Beijing. It is as much a story about perseverance, passion and belief as it is about the people and remarkable landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia. Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly are fearless adventurers, willing and able to open themselves up to everything from the voice of the steppe to the Russian villagers and the nomads of the Gobi desert. From this, they draw an often funny, moving and inspirational tale of living out a dream.

Author : Rob Lilwall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 144474528X

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Walking Home from Mongolia by Rob Lilwall Pdf

CYCLING HOME FROM SIBERIA author Rob Lilwall's unique adventure through freezing China from Mongolia to Hong Kong - this time on foot.

Author : Simon Vickers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015025169320

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Between the Hammer and the Sickle by Simon Vickers Pdf