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description: On 15 February 2008 Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously he had set off from Paris in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than 18000 miles on his own through some of the harshest conditions one man and his bicycle can endure camping wild at night and suffering from constant ailments.The Man Who Cycled the World is the story not just of that amazing achievement but of the events that turned Mark Beaumont into the man he is today. From the early years of his free-spirited childhood in the Scottish countryside he had been determined to break records cycling across Scotland and then from John O'Groats to Land's End by the age of fifteen raising thousands of pounds for charity. After leaving university he had been equally determined not to settle for an average existence but to break free and see the world from a saddle to follow his dreams.This is the tale not just of one of the last great circumnavigation world records and of the incredible endurance it took to accomplish it but an insight into many of the world's cultures from a unique perspective. From Paris to Istanbul through Turkey Iran Pakistan India and south-east Asia to Singapore then across Australia New Zealand and the United States before the final legs in Europe all at hundred miles a day this is the story of a quite remarkable adventure by a quite remarkable man.
language: English
title: The Man Who Cycled the World
publisher: Bantam