Overview
Cycling Home from Siberia is a gripping story of endurance and adventure: Rob Lilwall's epic journey back to England via the forbidding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone, and Afghanistan's war-torn Hindu Kush. ""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.
Full Product Details
Author: Rob Lilwall
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Howard Books
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781451607864
ISBN 10: 1451607865
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 05 April 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
An epic journey. --Bear Grylls
An epic journey. —Bear Grylls
A rite-of-passage adventure full of thrills, excitement, and endurance tests . . . If you're a cyclist--and even if you're not--go for this book. --The Irish Times I don't know if Rob Lilwall knows it, but he has penned a two-wheeled classic. I wanted to rise up singing and strap on my bicycle clips. --The Guardian Lilwall's story is a remarkable one . . . enhanced by the fact that he has a writer's skill for conveying a sense of place. --The Sunday Telegraph An epic journey. --Bear Grylls
Lilwall's story is a remarkable one . . . enhanced by the fact that he has a writer's skill for conveying a sense of place. <p>-- The Sunday Telegraph
Rob Lilwall . . . has penned a two-wheeled classic. I wanted to rise up singing and strap on my bicycle clips. - The Guardian An epic journey. -Bear Grylls An epic journey. --Bear Grylls An epic journey. Lilwall's story is a remarkable one . . . enhanced by the fact that he has a writer's skill for conveying a sense of place. A rite-of-passage adventure full of thrills, excitement, and endurance tests . . . If you're a cyclist--and even if you're not--go for this book. I don't know if Rob Lilwall knows it, but he has penned a two-wheeled classic. I wanted to rise up singing and strap on my bicycle clips. An epic journey. --Bear Grylls An epic journey. -- Bear Grylls
An epic journey. --Bear Grylls Lilwall's story is a remarkable one . . . enhanced by the fact that he has a writer's skill for conveying a sense of place. --The Sunday Telegraph A rite-of-passage adventure full of thrills, excitement, and endurance tests . . . If you're a cyclist--and even if you're not--go for this book. --The Irish Times I don't know if Rob Lilwall knows it, but he has penned a two-wheeled classic. I wanted to rise up singing and strap on my bicycle clips. --The Guardian
Author Information
Born in London in 1976, Rob Lilwall studied geography at Edinburgh University and did his teacher training at Oxford University before teaching geography in an Oxfordshire Secondary School for two years. At the age of 27, that he set off on his three year Cycling Home From Siberia. He also completed a theology diploma at Oxford University. In September 2009 he married Christine Liu.
