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Join adventurer motorcyclist Ryan Pyle as he spends months
exploring the most exciting and remote locations in Brazil. In this
book he takes us on the most incredible journey in an effort to
better understand the stunning and complex country of Brazil. In
the end, Ryan completed his circumnavigation of Brazil in sixty
days, pushing himself beyond limits while also learning the
helplessness of being trapped in the remote Amazon, hundreds of
miles away from any help or assistance. Also available by Ryan
Pyle: The India Ride and The Middle Kingdom Ride - the
extraordinary motorcycle adventures from China and India. Also see
Ryans Sacred Mountains of China and his photography book Chinese
Turkestan. You can find out more about the author by visiting his
website: www.ryanpyle.com.
"You have seen the Television series, now read the book. Join
adventurer, photographer and television personality Ryan Pyle, as
he spends months exploring and photographing Western Chinas remote
Sacred Mountains in an effort to better understand these most
sacred Tibetan regions. His human-powered adventure is one of the
ages as he explores the remote provinces of Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan
and Yunnan."
When Canadian brothers Colin and Ryan Pyle finished their
record-breaking motorcycle adventure around China in 2010, they
promised themselves that it would be their last such venture. Of
course, they were wrong. Back in the saddle again, Colin and Ryan
have set out to tackle the diverse country of India, and they had
no idea what to expect! Whether it was monsoon rains, crashes in
Mumbai, the claustrophobic roads of Kerla or even a brutal
paragliding landing in Manali; nothing could stop these two
adventurers as they triumphantly completed a 54 day -- 14,000 km --
motorcycle circumnavigation of India. In an Indian expedition of
unforeseen extremes, Colin and Ryan battled the Rohtang Pass in a
rainstorm, made a pilgrimage to the most visited holy site on earth
in Amritsar; they also jumped off a perfectly good mountain and
learned how to make the perfect cup of Indian tea in Darjeeling. If
that seems like a lot, all of this was done while traversing over
isolated mountain passes, blazing a trail through the roasting hot
deserts and battling the insane traffic of Mumbai, Delhi and
Kolkata. In this book Colin and Ryan take us with them as they make
their way through the remarkable and stunning landscapes of India.
In the end, the brothers had learned what it takes to succeed as a
team as they had circumnavigated a billion people, pushed
themselves to new limits, and shared in an adventure that most of
us will only ever dream of.
When Canadian brothers Colin and Ryan Pyle set out from Shanghai on
a motorcycle journey that had never previously been attempted, they
thought they had some idea of what lay ahead of them. It was a
misconception that had become evident by the end of Day 1. But,
despite the many challenges they faced, 65 days and 18,000 km later
they'd succeeded in circumnavigating China. In an expedition of
extremes, Colin and Ryan visited the third lowest point on Earth
and slept at Everest Base Camp beside its highest mountain. They
travelled off-road through deep desert sand in suffocating heat,
traversed mountain passes in freezing temperatures that turned the
moisture in their clothes to ice, and rode in torrential rain
through mudslides beside rapidly rising flood waters. At the end of
their remarkable journey, the brothers has strengthened the bond
between them, gained a Guinness World Record, tested their
endurance to its limits, and shared an adventure that most of us
will only ever dream of having. In this book Colin and Ryan take us
with them as they travel through the diverse and extraordinary
landscapes of China, from its border with North Korea, to the
ancient Muslin city of Kashgar, across the vast empty spaces of the
Mongolian grasslands, over the mountains and into the monasteries
of Tibet.
Join adventurer and renowned photographer, Ryan Pyle, as he spends
months exploring and photographing Western Chinas remote Sacred
Mountains in an effort to better understand these most sacred
Tibetan regions. His human-powered adventure is one of the ages as
he explores the remote provinces of Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan and
Yunnan.
Sparsely populated and spanning over 1.6 million square kilometres
of desert, river basins, mountains, and grasslands, the Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region has had a turbulent history. Many of the
events that have occurred there during the last 2500 years have
been inextricably associated with its geographical position in
north-west China, at a crossroads linking Europe and Asia.
Traversed by branches of the series of trade routes that formed the
ancient Silk Road, the region has been fought over and controlled
by a succession of warlords and empires. With the most recent
influx of Han Chinese have also come transformations in the
character of Xinjiangs cities: shopping malls now replace ancient
bazaars, and new apartment blocks rise above what remains of the
old laneways. In reality, the people of Xinjiang are facing many
changes. Their future, as well as the future of this culturally and
geographically unique territory, may depend on how those changes
are dealt with. Despite the contentious issues that exist in
Xinjiang, it was not for any political reasons that I chose to call
this book Chinese Turkestan. It was simply because, for me, the old
name conjures up a region without physical borders; an admixture of
an idea rather than a distinct geographical or political entity.
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