Long Way Round

Film star Ewan McGregor travels around the world by motorcycle with his best friend, actor Charley Boorman. This unique and fascinating travel-adventure book captures their extraordinary journey.

From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started.

Exhaustion, injury, and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather, and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads.

And yet despite all these obstacles, they managed to ride more than twenty thousand miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled, they documented their trip, took photographs, and wrote diaries by the campfire.

Long Way Round is the result of their adventures—a fascinating, frank, and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together.