Fifty Miles Wide

Cycling Through Israel and Palestine

Fifty Miles Wide
Julian Sayarer
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Paperback
h195 x 130mm - 311pg
16 Apr 2020 UK
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9781911350750
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Ten years after breaking a world record for cycling around the world, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels on the roads of Israel and occupied Palestine. His route weaves from the ancient hills of Galilee, along the blockaded walls of the Gaza Strip and down to the Bedouin villages of the Naqab Desert. He speaks with Palestinian hip-hop artists who wonder if music can change their world, Israelis hoping that kibbutz life can, and Palestinian cycling clubs determined to keep on riding despite the army checkpoints and settlers that bar their way. Pedalling through a military occupation, in the chance encounters of the roadside, a bicycle becomes a vehicle of more than just travel, and cuts through the tension to find a few simple truths, and some hope. As the miles pass, the journey becomes a meditation on making change - how people in dark times keep their spirit, and go on believing that a different world is possible. ' One can' t help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous, post-modern genre. ' - Sara Wheeler' As much an examination of roadside politics as the US landscape. ' - The Guardian
' Sayarer' s thoughtful, meditative travelogue actually feels very important. This is less a personal adventure than an exploration of how people persevere in the darkest of circumstances. ' -- Ben East * The Guardian * ' vivid and meditative. . . Hope is found, again and again, nowhere more so than in this wonderful book. ' * Buzz Magazine * ' A great read by a great travel author. Takes me right back to some very special places' -- Levison Wood
Julian Sayarer is an author, journalist, and is often called an adventurer. He has cycled six times across Europe, and in 2009 broke the 18,000-mile world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle. He has spent three years working as a cycle courier on the streets of London, hitchhiked from New York to San Francisco, and worked on books and documentary projects along the way. A politics graduate, Julian' s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, New Statesman, Aeon Magazine, and many others, including a host of cycling publications. He writes slow travel, his writing from the roadside a 12mph view of the world in passing.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781911350750
Published: 16 Apr 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Arcadia Books
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 195mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 359g
Pages: 311

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