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Long way round chasing shadows across the world

Fellow actors & bike enthusiasts travel 20,000 miles around the world by motorbike encountering challenges ranging from extreme weather to impenetrable terrain, caviar fishing, wrestling with the Mongolian Olympic team & riding with the Canadian Mounties.

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  • "Fellow actors & bike enthusiasts travel 20,000 miles around the world by motorbike encountering challenges ranging from extreme weather to impenetrable terrain, caviar fishing, wrestling with the Mongolian Olympic team & riding with the Canadian Mounties."@en
  • "It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, [the author] noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation he couldn't get out of his head. So he picked up the phone and called Charley Boorman, his best friend, fellow actor and bike enthusiast. "Charley," he said. "I think you ought to come over for dinner..." From London to New York ... through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tires of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride over 20,000 miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. [This book] is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank, and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream. -Dust jacket."
  • "Fellow film actors and bike enthusiasts travel 20,000 miles around the world by motorbike encountering many challenges ranging from extreme weather to impenetrable terrain, caviar fishing in the Caspian, wrestling with the Mongolian Olympic team and riding with the Canadian Mounties."

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