Thunder & Sunshine, part two of Alistair Humphreys’ journey around the world by bike.

This is a book of vivid and engaging tales, of the people and places along the route of an epic adventure. Alastair crosses his own emotional mountains and chasms, and through it, discovers himself. With a winning and compelling story-teller’s charm, he shares what it is to undertake such a journey. Alastair Humphreys rode 46,000 miles around the world on an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans took him four years to complete, on a tiny budget of hoarded student loans.

Arriving in Cape Town with Rita (his bike), Alastair was a long, long way from his home in Yorkshire. He cycled the length fo South and North America, the breadth of Asia and back across Europe, crossing the mountains and salt-flats of South America, canoeing the Five-Finger Rapids of the Yukon River and braving a Siberian Winter with the flimsiest tent.

Readers of Alastair’s best-selling Moods of Future Joys know that the best laid plans don’t always work out.

Press for Thunder & Sunshine:

“Humphreys conveys his loneliness, wanderlust, grit and despair in a manner reminiscent of the great tradition of British explorers” - The Guardian

“[he] undertook the expedition to find out if he can write. Believe me, he can.” - Geographical

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