No Wrong Turns: Cycling the World, Part One: Paris to Sydney

No Wrong Turns: Cycling the World, Part One: Paris to Sydney

â€œ...the most amazing trip around the world you will ever read about...â€

When Chris Pountney pedals away from the Eiffel Tower he is doing more than just going for a bike ride. It is the start of an ambitious attempt to become perhaps the first person ever to circumnavigate the planet using only a bicycle and boats. With a list of seven challenges to guide him (but no real map), he heads east towards Asia and Australia. The Sydney Opera House is his goal.

The story follows Chris as he tackles snowy mountain passes in Turkey, wades across rivers in Tajikistan, eats strange cheeses in Mongolia, and meets with incredible kindness just about everywhere he goes. He lives a simple life - sleeping in a tent, talking to his bike, consuming a really unbelievable number of biscuits, and all the time stubbornly refusing to have anything whatsoever to do with motor vehicles (or escalators).

But can he overcome all of the visa deadlines, the breakdowns, the bad roads, the headwinds, the kamikaze kangaroos, and the surprisingly frequent danger of being distracted by members of the opposite sex, to successfully pedal all of the way to Sydney?

â€œChris takes you on his journey and makes you believe it is possible for you to undertake an adventure of this magnitude.â€

â€œA great adventure story and Chris's writing had me genuinely laughing out loud every few pages.â€

â€œI've read many books about cycle touring and this is by far the best one. Well written and funny...â€

â€œChris writes in one of the most witty, lighthearted, smart, & well crafted travel storytelling ways that Iâ€™ve ever had the pleasure to read.â€

â€œI honestly think that Chrisâ€™s book is by some way the best of its type that I have read. His story is intelligently written, has the right amount of humour and captures honestly and vividly a true epic odyssey.â€

(All quotes are extracted from genuine Amazon reviews.)
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-03-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-03-16
Format	Kindle eBook

No Wrong Turns: Cycling the World, Part One: Paris to Sydney

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