Thunder & Sunshine - Around the World by Bike, part 2

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“Thunder & Sunshine” tells the second part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing across the oceans, his ride took four years to complete, on a tiny budget of hoarded student loans.

This is a book of vivid and engaging tales, of the people and places along the route of an epic adventure. Arriving in Cape Town with Rita (his bike), Alastair was a long, long way from his home in Yorkshire. He cycled the length of South and North America, the breadth of Asia and back across Europe, cross the mountains and salt-flats of South America, canoeing the Five-Finger Rapids of the Yukon River and braving Siberian Winter with the flimsiest tent.

As readers of the first instalment, “Moods of Future Joys” know, that even the best laid plans don’t always work out.