Jupiter’s Travels
Jupiter’s Travels by Ted Simon, published by Penguin Adult in 1980, is a detailed account of the author’s four-year motorcycle journey around the world. Covering 63,000 miles through fifty-four countries, Simon’s narrative explores the challenges and triumphs he faced, including breakdowns, encounters with diverse cultures, and moments of personal reflection. This edition spans 448 pages and is presented in English.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of experiences as Simon delves into the depths of fear and the heights of euphoria during his travels. The book captures the essence of adventure, featuring themes of transportation and travel, while also reflecting on the human connections he made along the way. Jupiter’s Travels has influenced a genre of travel writing, offering insights into the spirit of exploration and the transformative power of journeying across the globe.
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Jupiter’s Travels -Ted Simon’s astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world
The book that inspired Ewan McGregor’s Long Way Round
In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. Through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune, he travelled into the depths of fear and reached the heights of euphoria.
He met astonishing people and was treated as a spy, a welcome stranger and even a god. For Simon the trip became a journey into his own soul, and for many others – including bikers Charley Boorman and Ewan McGrergor – it provides an inspiration they will never forget.
This classic text, which has informed a whole genre of travel writing in the thirty years since it was first published, will never be bettered for sheer adventure, passion, humour and honesty.
Brought up in England by a German mother and a Romanian father, Ted Simon found himself impelled by an insatiable desire to explore the world. It led him to abandon an early scientific career in favour of journalism, and he has worked for several newspapers and magazines on Fleet Street and elsewhere. Ted Simon is also the author of Riding Home and The Gypsy in Me.
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