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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Cycling
Remarkable Bicycle Rides includes a wide variety of cycling
challenges from the exhilaration of high alpine trails to more
gentler touring routes, such as Hadrian's Cycleway, which crosses
from Britain's Solway Firth to the North Sea following the line of
Roman monument Hadrian's Wall. There are the classic mountain
climbs beloved of followers of the Tour de France and the Giro
d'Italia, such as the climb to Mont Ventoux in France and the
Stelvio Pass in Italy. Still in Italy, there is the mass
participation of L'Eorica, a bike tour in traditional costume on
vintage bikes. For those wishing to push themselves to the very
edge (literally) there is the Yungas Road in Bolivia whose
alternative name is El Camino de la Muerte (Death Road).
Long-distance trails, such as the Great Divide (Canada/USA) and the
Great North Trail (England/Scotland) can form an epic trip of a
lifetime, or be tackled in smaller sections. On more robust wheels
there is the A-Line single track in Whistler, Canada, and The Whole
Enchilada in Moab, Utah. If you like your cycling on a flatter
incline, many routes follow old railway beds, such as the Hiawatha
and the Katy Trails in the USA, P'tit Train Du Nord (Canada) or the
Parenzana which crosses from Italy to Slovenia to Croatia, plus
many of the European routes follow great rivers. Also included in
over 50 routes; Danube Cycle Path, Ring of Kerry, Iron Curtain
Trail, Vasco-Navarro Greenway, Flanders Beer Route, Carretera
Austral (Chile), the San Juan Islands, Norway Postal Boat, the
Loire Valley, Passau to Vienna, Munda Biddi Trail, Shimanami Kaido
(Japan), Route des Grands Crus (Burgundy), Nantes to Orleans, Paris
to Mont St.Michel, Great North Trail, Alpine Panorama, Salzach
Valley, Otago Peninsular, Route 10 Holland, Garden Route (South
Africa), and the Hebridean Way.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE
YEAR On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in
her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to
circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling, kayaking
and rowing across Europe, Asia, the Pacific, North America, the
Atlantic and eventually home. A year later, Sarah was plucked from
the Pacific ocean amid tropical storm Mawar, her boat broken, her
spirit even more so. But that wasn't the end. Despite ill health
and depression, giving up was not an option. So Sarah set off once
more to finish what she had started, becoming the first woman to
row solo from Japan to Alaska, as well as the first woman to row
the mid-Pacific from West to East. She kayaked the treacherous
Aleutian chain and cycled North America, before setting out on the
Atlantic, despite the risk of another row-ending storm... Dare to
Do is more than an adventure story. It is a story of the kindness
of strangers and the spirit of travel; a story of the raw power of
nature, of finding love in unexpected places, and of discovering
your inner strength. It is about trying and failing, and trying
again, and about how, even when all seems lost, you can find
yourself.
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