Book description
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.
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
.
