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End to End - 'A really great read, fascinating, moving' Adrian Chiles (Hardcover)
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End to End - 'A really great read, fascinating, moving' Adrian Chiles (Hardcover)
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List price R531
Loot Price R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
You Save R95 (18%)
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'A sort of partial British social and political history. It is also
memoir and confessional. It is an utterly remarkable book'
Conquista The End to End record is the longest place-to-place
cycling record in Britain. It is a daunting 842 miles and for the
men and women who attempt to break the record, there can be no
second place, only the binary outcome of total success or failure.
Paul Jones decided to ride from Land's End to John O' Groats in an
attempt to understand the relentless physical and mental challenges
involved. End to End is a captivating and beautifully written
narrative. A lyrical account of the journey sits alongside meetings
with amazing cyclists; people like Eileen Sheridan; who covered the
distance in under three days in 1954, or current men's record
holder Michael Broadwith who did it in a scarcely believable 43
hours. Paul Jones reaches further back to the very first attempts
in the 1880s, undertaken on penny farthings, fuelled by Victorian
values and patent medicine. For the author, what starts as a simple
way to frame the narrative transforms into a deeper search for
meaning amidst the ceaseless clamour of life, work and
relationships. It becomes a trip through the contours of the mind
as well as the map, from Bodmin Moor to Shap Fell, the Cairngorms
and the Caithness coast. End to End is a portrayal of hope and
ambition, of what happens when things go wrong and how hard it is
to make them right. It is about courage, obsession and joy, but
above all else, it is a compelling exploration of why journeys
matter for all of us.
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