In the introduction to this book the authors, themselves American, explain that most Americans don’t understand the significance and depth of feeling the European cycling Grand Tours generate in their fans. They set out to explain through the history of … Continue reading →
This isn’t really a review of “Cycles of Time”: I’m not going to discuss the structure of the book or the quality of the writing. Instead I’ve tried for my own benefit to summarise what I learned from reading it. … Continue reading →
Subtitled "Up the Yukon Without a Paddle" this book is one of those "We wanted to get away from it all and although we hadn’t a clue what we were doing we somehow managed to survive" stories. And frankly it’s … Continue reading →
A journey is not always a challenge, nor is a challenge always an adventure. An episode in a life can be none, one, two, or all three of these things. In his previous book “The Man Who Cycled The World” … Continue reading →
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California and grew up near the Pacific coast where many of his earlier successful novels and stories are based. He later moved to New York and by 1960 had been living there for some … Continue reading →
This is a compilation of short essays by a variety of people – comedians, philosophers, Ben Goldacre – who have one thing in common: they are atheists. That doesn’t mean they don’t like Christmas, just that it means different things … Continue reading →
David Edwards and David Cromwell are the founders of campaigning journalism team Media Lens. Their mission is to respond to "the unwillingness, or inability, of the mainstream media to tell the truth about the real causes and extent of many … Continue reading →
Fourteen years after her excellent book on Antarctica, Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler is back among the ice floes, but this time at the other end of the Earth’s axis, the Arctic. The world has changed in that time. She now … Continue reading →
Mountaineers, climbers, Munro-baggers and walkers are not alone among visitors to the Scottish Highlands to be interested in the pesky midge. This little book, deservedly a best-seller, is now in its fourth edition. The author is an academic who has … Continue reading →
This was my second long-distance cycling book in three months: partly co-incidence and partly because the author, Mark Beaumont, had been on television with a three-part series about cycling the length of the Americas* and this book was on prominent … Continue reading →