A new book entitled, "Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the World" is about a couple of movie actors, Ewan McGregor (The Pha...
A new book entitled, "Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the World" is about a couple of movie actors, Ewan McGregor (The Phantom Menace, Moulin Rouge), and Charley Boorman (Deliverance, Hope and Glory), who ride their motorcycles around the world.
Leaving London in April of 2004, they headed east, going across Europe and Asia. Then they flew over the Pacific and continue on across North America, until they reached New York. The whole trip took four months.
The book is a journal of their travels documenting their adventures. According to the book:
Leaving London in April of 2004, they headed east, going across Europe and Asia. Then they flew over the Pacific and continue on across North America, until they reached New York. The whole trip took four months.
The book is a journal of their travels documenting their adventures. According to the book:
It started as a daydream. Pouring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation he couldn't get out of his head. So he picked up the phone and called Charley Boorman, his best friend, fellow actor and bike enthusiast. 'Charley,' he said. 'I think you ought to come over for dinner...'Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the World is available from Amazon.com
From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads.
And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride over 20,000 miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream.
