Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
by Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman
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Author: Charley Boorman, Ewan McGregorEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0743499344
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Atria Books
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Book Review: Two guys, two bikes, 20,000 miles.
Summary: 5 Stars
When my husband first brought this book home, I was hooked on the premise. As a motorcyclist and someone who wishes for the time and means to travel around my state, let alone the world, I knew I'd have to read this one.
The book opens in Magadan, Siberia, the culmination of weeks of strenuous riding through some fairly wretched conditions. Ewan and Charley are exhausted, but relieved. As I started reading the book, I was very aware that its authors were celbrities. But in the vain of great buddy adventures, these two (and their support crew including the intrepid Claudio), became a couple of guys on a couple of bikes riding 20,000 miles around the world, give or take a mile here and there.
The stories along the way - even the difficulties in Khazakstan - were the real journey, not the trail itself. While the trail itself was a bit of a story for the sometimes muddy, sometimes gravelly, sometimes "where the heck is it" nature of their path.
But it was the people they met, the places they went and the scenes they saw that were the real journey. As the old biker saying goes, it's not the destination, it's the journey. Perhaps one of my favorites parts of the book included a stop where Ewan had a lengthy conversation with an old eastern european woman, and neither spoke the other's language.
By the time the two reach their final Eurasian destination, you forget that these are two guys of celbrity statues. It's no longer Obi-Wan and (for me) the son of the guy who made Zardoz. These are two blokes I could see myself taking a week long road trip by bike with.
Their adventures are sometimes harrowing, frequently entertaining, and always enlightening. The journey is presented in an easy to read, but still interesting format that left me wanting so much more.
Summary of Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor -- acclaimed actor and self-confessed bike nut -- 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 his fellow actor-slash-biker friend Charley Boorman and told him it was time to hit the road....
Beginning in London, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia; across the Pacific to Alaska; then down through Canada all the way to New York. Long Way Round is the result of their four-month, 20,000-mile joyride. Featuring original diary entries, travel maps, mileage charts, and dozens of photographs, this is a freewheeling, fully charged, and uproariously entertaining book about two world-famous individuals who chose the road not taken...and made the journey worthwhile.
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