All Posts Tagged With: "Alastair Humphreys"
Take the Burden out of choosing your ‘Great Summer Reads’
There is a great selection of titles that make great summer reads from our imprints: Eye Books, Can of Worms and Civic Books (see below) and the Hereford Times has just selected Peter Burden’s News of the world? Fake Sheikhs & Royal Trappings as one of their choices, see the review here.
For the armchair cyclist, Rob Ainsley’s 50 Quirky Bike Rides Around England & Wales takes a revolutionary look at some fun ways to take the pressure out of cycling and making it fun again. What goes around comes around.
If you want to get serious with your armchair cycling, forget Mark Beaumont (currently on BBC Two with his cycling around the world) and read Alastair Humphrey’s tandem of titles Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine which recount with great humour and insight the reality of undertaking an around the world bicycle ride.
If mayhem and murder are more your thing, British Comedy Award winner Chips Hardy’s Each Day A Small Victory is described by best selling author Jake Arnott (The Long Firm) as ‘Pulp Fiction meets Wind in the Willows’, and in Can of Worms’s graphic version of Othello the page becomes the stage for Shakespeare’s tragedy of jealousy, passion, deceit and the destruction of overwhelming love.
Alastair Humphreys on The Bike Show
Listen to Mood of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine author Alastair Humphrey’s interview on the Resonance FM Bike Show programme. You can hear the first part of his interview here: The Bike Show. the second part of his interview will be broadcast on 1st September.
Alastair Humphreys’ lastest adventure
Alastair Humphreys, author of Moods of Future Joys and Thunder and Sunshine, is embarking on a new expedition. SOUTH will be the longest unsupported polar journey in history, with Alastair and his friend Ben Saunders making the first return journey to the South pole on foot. This pdf brochure summarises the project. This extraordinary and inspirational pair have been training for over four years in order to be able to face the extreme conditions they will have to survive. Alastair’s blog goes into more detail about this incredible challenge, and you can find out more about Ben Saunders, youngest person to ski solo to the North Pole and British record holder for the longest Arctic journey, on his blog.
Review of Thunder & Sunshine
Thunder and Sunshine by Alastair Humphreys has been reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott, of the online book journal Curled Up With a Good Book.
Excerpt from Barbara Bamberger Scott’s review:
In an age when there are, in the older way of looking at things, no new frontiers, an adventure like this is a great achievement and no doubt an inspiration to others. There may be no roads untraveled, but there are still new ways to travel them and much to learn along the way. Humphreys is a hopeful person - there is no taint of cynicism or world-weariness in his writing. Constantly self-motivated, he had only himself to thank when he got up each day and cycled another few miles. He was nearly always treated with kindness and “nobody ever refused me water.” He concludes, “Don’t believe what you see on the TV; the world really is a good place.”
Thunder & Sunshine by Alastair Humphreys
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.
I read Alastair's first book Moods of Future Joys and heard him speak at Stanfords in Bristol recently. He is ...