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 (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0743499344
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Atria
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- ISBN13: 9780743499347
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
Book Review: More about the trip and less about the emo
Summary: 3 Stars
I've just finished reading Long Way Round and have to say while I enjoyed the book I didn't feel that it added all that much to the DVD series of the same name. If someone felt in the DVDs that on occasion the sometimes snippy or petty comments between Ewan and Charlie were a bit boring then be prepared for a bit more of it in the book.
Don't get me wrong it is interesting and I have no doubt whatsoever the mental toll of a trip like this would be quite large. But I think it was Ewan who said early in the book how he was sick of the production team setting up staged shoots (like getting their portraits drawn on a bridge) and that the show would be more interesting if it focused on the actual trials and tribulations (such as Claudio not getting his license which could have thrown the trip).
In my opinion they should have taken their own advice in this regard - instead of whining about the production crew, or how someone hurt someone's feelings because they said the wrong thing at the wrong time - and focused on what must have been really happening. Such as getting stuck in rivers, thoughts of turning back, bikes breaking down etc. Maybe they thought if you get stuck in 30 rivers you only need to read about it once, and if that was the case I disagree. I want to read about every challenge, every obstacle and every person they met.
Sure there is an element of how the personal relationship is going and it has its place, but I honestly thought it just got a little too much air time in the book when there must have been much more interesting things to read about.
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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