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Cycling Home From Siberia
- Author
- Rob Lilwall
- Narrator
- Rob Lilwall
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 2 July 2026
- Run Time
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Travel writing
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'It is late October, and the temperature is already -40C...My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.'In 2004 Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. CYCLING HOME FROM SIBERIA recounts his epic three and a half year, 30,000 mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone and Afghanistan's war-torn Hindu Kush.
A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey giving a poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world's toughest corners.
www.roblilwall.com
(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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- Author
- Rob Lilwall
- Narrator
- Rob Lilwall
- Duration
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9781529361216
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Travel writing
Synopsis
The gripping adventure story of one man's epic journey back from Siberia to England by bike. 'It is late October, and the temperature is already -40C...My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.'In 2004 Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. CYCLING HOME FROM SIBERIA recounts his epic three and a half year, 30,000 mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone and Afghanistan's war-torn Hindu Kush.A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey giving a poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world's toughest corners.www.roblilwall.com(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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