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French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France

Bat­tling it out with the old men on butch­ers’ bikes across the plains of Aquitaine and pur­sued by cat­tle over Europe’s sec­ond high­est road, Moore soon finds him­self resort­ing to nar­cot­ic assis­tance, sys­tem­at­ic overeat­ing, and waxed legs before sum­mon­ing a sup­port vehi­cle staffed by cru­el­ly scep­ti­cal fam­i­ly and friends.

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Bicycle Diaries

An enchant­i­ng cel­e­bra­tion of bike rid­ing and of the rewards of see­ing the world at bike lev­el, this book gives the read­er an incred­i­ble insight into what Byrne is see­ing and think­ing as he ped­als around these cities.

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Signs Of Life: To The Ends Of The Earth With A Doctor

In 2010 Stephen Fabes rode away from his career as an emer­gency doc­tor in Lon­don, on a jour­ney that would see him ride the length of six con­ti­nents; a cycling cir­cum­nav­i­ga­tion which took six years. Signs of Life is his sto­ry of a world of chal­lenges — from Tajik camel spi­ders to camp­ing on a frozen lake in Mon­go­lia, to coax­ing anoth­er few kilo­me­tres out of ‘Ol’ Patchy’ (his faith­ful inner tube), and of fas­ci­nat­ing inter­ac­tions with the peo­ple of sev­en­ty-five coun­tries; from hos­pitable nomads and curi­ous chil­dren to vin­dic­tive bor­der guards and gang­sters. It is also a sto­ry of med­i­cine call­ing Stephen back; he recalls his first pro­nounce­ment of death as he exam­ines the frozen body of a monk high in the Himalayas; he is drawn into treat­ing patients at a lep­rosy clin­ic; he helps refugees at The Jun­gle in Calais. All the while, he reflects on how soci­eties treat their most vul­ner­a­ble and draws com­par­isons with the lost souls he had treat­ed back home in Lon­don; peo­ple who he resolves to tru­ly lis­ten to, when he returns to his vocation.

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Nala’s World

Insta­gram phe­nom­e­non @1bike1world Dean Nichol­son reveals the full sto­ry of his life-chang­ing friend­ship with res­cue cat Nala and their inspir­ing adven­tures togeth­er on a bike jour­ney around the world. When 30-year-old Dean Nichol­son set off from Scot­land to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn as much as he could about our trou­bled plan­et. But he had­n’t bar­gained on the lessons he’d learn from his unlike­ly com­pan­ion. Three months after leav­ing home, on a remote road in the moun­tains between Mon­tene­gro and Bosnia, he came across an aban­doned kit­ten. Some­thing about the pierc­ing eyes and plain­tive meow­ing of the bedrag­gled lit­tle cat proved irre­sistible. He could­n’t leave her to her fate, so he put her on his bike and then, with the help of local vets, nursed her back to health. Soon on his trav­els with the cat he named Nala, they forged an unbreak­able bond — both curi­ous, inde­pen­dent, resilient and adven­tur­ous. The video of how they met has had 20 mil­lion views and their Insta­gram has grown to almost 750k fol­low­ers — and still count­ing! Expe­ri­enc­ing the kind­ness of strangers, vis­it­ing refugee camps, res­cu­ing ani­mals through Europe and Asia, Dean and Nala have already learned that the unex­pect­ed can be pret­ty amaz­ing. Togeth­er with Gar­ry Jenk­ins, writer with James Bowen of the best­selling A Street Cat Named Bob, Dean shares the extra­or­di­nary tale of his and Nala’s inspir­ing and heart-warm­ing adven­ture together.

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