A review by mohawkm
Thunder and Sunshine by Alastair Humphreys

adventurous challenging funny hopeful inspiring

5.0

As bike travelogues go, this one is full of tenacity: traveling around the world, as cheaply as possible, over 4 years. You might assume that means the author is something of a dirtbag, and I suspect he'd agree. Still, he accepts it with humor and writes eloquently of the beautiful places and people, the unreasonable risks he takes, and the now barely remembered feeling of being completely cut off from the world, by traveling by bike remotely in the early 2000s  (pre-smart phone). While I don't want to bike across Siberia in winter myself, I feel all the better for having read it and all the other adventures in this excellent book.