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The Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook

By Tom | Published: May 6, 2010
One of the most valu­able resources I had when pre­par­ing to make the leap and begin cycle tour­ing was the Adven­ture Cycle-Touring Handbook. In fact, I’d say that it’s respons­ible for my ideas becom­ing any­thing more than just ideas.
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The Marco Polo of the Middle East

By Tom | Published: April 30, 2010
While I was trav­el­ling through Europe, people would some­times smile and jok­ingly pass ref­er­ence to Marco Polo, the medi­eval Italian mer­chant who brought home epic tales of Asia, now immor­tal­ised as one of history’s great adven­tur­ers, and whose exper­i­ences neither I nor any­one else stand the slight­est chance of recre­at­ing in today’s world. While I [...]
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Further Reading

By Tom | Published: June 23, 2008
Look­ing back, we Eng­lish chaps have a col­our­ful his­tory of explor­a­tion — epic jour­neys into the unknown, break­ing new ground, new meth­ods, new records. One of the cur­rent gen­er­a­tion fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of Liv­ing­stone, Shack­leton, Fiennes et al is a young York­shire lad called Alastair Humphreys, who I first heard about when I was [...]
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