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NOT YET PUBLISHED
ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-413-7
ISBN 10: 1-55017-413-4 Price: $32.95 CAD; $32.95 USD Hardback 60 colour photos 6 x 9 - 256 pp January 2007 |
Hang a Left at SiberiaBook DescriptionOn June 1, 2004, the talented young journalist-filmmaker Tim Harvey and his then-travelling partner Colin Angus left Vancouver by bicycle, initially setting out on a human-powered expedition to Moscow. On November 12, 2006, surrounded by an onslaught of reporters and TV cameras, Harvey wheeled back into Vancouver after a 42,000-kilometre trip that had taken him around the planet—without ever burning a drop of fossil fuel.Harvey’s journey took two and a half years on bicycles, on foot, in rowboats, in canoes, on a raft and under sail, carving a route across five continents and two oceans. From Africa to Siberia, South America to the Arctic, it was an epic of frostbite, blizzards, bandits and high-seas storms. In his book, Tim Harvey shares the story of his amazing adventure and details his harrowing odyssey through the great Northern Rivers, sea ice and Arctic tundra, Siberia’s ancient forests, oceans both sub-arctic and tropical, scorching Mexican deserts and the unrivalled diversity of South America’s rebel-infested jungles—all without ever using motor-propelled transport. Most of all, Hang a Left at Siberia tells the story of one man’s dedication and sheer determination to make the world a better place, one step at a time. |
