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Long Way Round
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* Film star Ewan McGregor travels around the world by motorcycle with his best friend, actor Charley Boorman - a unique and fascinating travel/adventure book
* Author PR activity TBC * Nationwide outdoor advertising campaign * Extensive media attention * Cross-promotional opportunities with the DVD and CD of the series * Key title for NF summer reading and PBOTY promotions * Reading copies available
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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.
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Long Way Round is celebrated for its engaging and entertaining narration, with McGregor and Boorman offering a highly readable account that's spiritually uplifting. It is noted for being both touching and memorable, appealing to both armchair travellers and motorcycle enthusiasts.
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ISBN: 9780751536805
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 May 2005
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sphere
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 400
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About the Author
Ewan McGregor first came to notice in Shallow Grave. Since then he has appeared in more than thirty films including Star Wars Episodes I and II and Trainspotting. Charley Boorman has appeared in films such as Excalibur, The Emerald Forest and, more recently, The Bunker
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