"A joyous rallying cry for middle-aged couch potatoes everywhere" - Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border
"Steve's adventure reminds us all that wildness and countryside is never more than a bike ride away" - Alastair Humphreys, author of The Boy Who Biked the World
What would happen if you got on a bike in central London and didn't stop riding until you hit the Welsh coast? Steve Silk, the best-selling author of The Great North Road, provides the answer over eight days, 300 miles and rather a lot of hills
Admittedly, he doesn't take the direct route. Country lanes replace dual carriageways, castles and museums are preferred to service stations and there's even a day-long diversion down the River Wye by canoe.
But seen from the saddle, he gets a much more intimate view of historic towns and cities like Oxford, Gloucester, Monmouth and Carmarthen, as well as the spectacular scenery in between. After all, which other direction out of London can offer three areas of outstanding natural beauty and two national parks in such short order?
Join Steve as he rides solo across England before being joined by three of his cycling buddies for the tougher terrain of Wales. Enriched with legends, humour and tales of friendship, Go West is a must for anyone who has dreamt of a cycling adventure.
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Steve's adventure reminds us all that wildness and countryside is never more than a bike ride away. You don't need to fly around the world for an adventure: all you need to do is step outside your front door, pedal out of town, and keep going! * Alastair Humphreys, author of The Boy Who Biked the World * Cycling from London to Pembrokeshire in just one week, Steve Silk is a great guide, enthusiastic and sensitive to the contours of the landscape through which he passes, and the stories and secrets buried within. It's a timely reminder that real adventure can still be found right beneath our noses, and a joyous rallying cry for middle-aged couch potatoes everywhere. * Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border * Relatable from the very first page, Steve's razor-sharp observations of human behaviour are as good a reason topick up this book as the cycling journey itself. A historically fascinating, witty sojourn from the streets of our capital city right through to the tiny Welsh hamlets where Steve is welcomed with no Wi-Fi and an outside loo. A thoroughly enjoyable - and educational - read. * Rachel Ann Cullen, author of Running for My Life * ...the salubrious subtext of Silk's transcendent two-wheeled odyssey is the joy of travelling slowly close to home, and the truth that the closer we look, the more we see. If we journey with the proper mindset, there is a wide world of wonders waiting to be discovered even in our figurative backyard. -- Don George * BBC Travel *
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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978-1-83799-572-1 (9781837995721)
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Steve Silk is a journalist working for BBC Look East in Norwich. Go West is his second cycling adventure. His first - The Great North Road - saw him ride from London to Edinburgh across 11 days. He has also written books on the Norfolk Broads. The Wherryman's Way was published in 2010 with Hidden Riverside Norwich following in 2016. Steve can regularly be found cycling the back lanes of Norfolk and Suffolk on either a Jamis Aurora tourer or a Voodoo Bizango mountain bike.
