Some time ago adventurer Alastair Humphreys interviewed fellow adventurers and asked them about their favorite books in their particular field of expertise. When it came so cycling, Alastair chose to interview Jack Thurston, the host of the popular Bike Show podcast and the author of Lost Lanes. Here are Jack Thurston’s five favorite cycling adventure books.
1. Around the World on a Wheel, John Foster Fraser: A genuinely impressive journey around the world in the 1890s retold with keen observation and leavened by wry Victorian self-deprecation.
2. Full Tilt, Dervla Murphy: A 1963 ride from Ireland to India is travel writing in the best sense, with all emphasis on the places and people along the way, and none on the distances covered. Getting into a few serious scrapes, Murphy turns out to be hard as nails.
3. Into the Remote Places, Ian Hibell: The adventure cyclists’ adventure cyclist, worth reading just for his account of crossing the Darien Gap on his pan-American ride in the early 1970s, probably the hardest and most daring journey ever undertaken by bicycle.
4. French Revolutions, Tim Moore: British comic writer and occasional cyclist confronts imminent arrival of middle age by attempting to ride the entire course of the Tour de France.
5. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Richard and Nicholas Crane: Two cousins ride racing bikes into the Gobi Desert. What can go wrong?
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