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'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine Kelly
'Brilliant' - Mark Beaumont 'A compelling account of a truly
remarkable achievement' - Tim Moore, travel writer 16 countries,
124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman’s solo
lap of the planet by bike. ‘The relief was immense: no longer was
I talking, thinking or worrying about this. I was just actually
doing it. I, Jenny Graham, was riding around the actual world!’
In 2018, amateur cyclist Jenny Graham left family and friends
behind in Scotland to become the fastest woman to cycle around the
world. Alone and unsupported, she crossed the finish line at the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin four months later, smashing the female
record by nearly three weeks. With infectious wit and honesty,
Jenny brings readers into her remarkable Round the World adventure,
as she takes on four continents, 16 countries – and countless
cups of coffee. Her journey swerves from terrifying near road
collisions in Russia and weather extremes in Australia to
breathtaking landscapes in Mongolia and exhilarating wildlife
encounters in North America. Tight on time and money, she resorts
to fixing her bike on the fly, sleeping on roadsides and often
riding through the night to stay on track and complete her mission.
As she battles physical and mental challenges to race against the
clock, Jenny gradually opens up to the joy of the adventure and all
its daily discoveries. She gives in to her impulse to connect with
people, making friends with strangers across the globe and
embracing new cultures. Coffee First, Then the World is her account
of a record-breaking ride, and how one woman and a humble bike
conquered the world.
Van Eyck is now seen as the artist who bridged the gap between the
medieval and the modern. His story is the story of modern art - the
turbulent clash of ideologies, the shifting and making of taste,
the perfect timing of historical event and technological change,
the politics of the art world and the cult of celebrity. The
Enlightenment had quietly placed van Eyck in the Gothic tradition.
Then Napoleon looted panels of his masterwork, the Ghent
Altar-piece, and took them back to the Louvre. With his work centre
stage in the greatest art gallery of the time, interest in van Eyck
exploded across Europe. The nineteenth century saw the arrival of
van Eyck mania, with ever-more fanciful tales in the art press of
his life as inventor of oil painting, monkish painter, even
arsonist and murderer; with scenes from his life, cheap colour
prints and van Eyck carpets and mirrors vying for popular
consumption; and with the claiming of van Eyck as the first
Pre-Raphaelite. Today, van Eyck is regarded as the first realist
painter, with popular and scholarly attention shifted from the
Ghent Altar-piece - also looted by Hitler and stored in an Austrian
salt-mine during the Second World War - to the riddle of his
celebrated Arnolfini Portrait. Inventing van Eyck tells the
extraordinary story of the making of an artist for the modern age.
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Monet Chases the Light
Jenny Graham; Illustrated by Patricia Ward
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