Thunder and Sunshine

At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a tiny budget of just £7,000.

Thunder and Sunshine is the sequel to the best-selling Moods of Future Joys. Here Alastair sails from Africa to South America, where he sets out to ride from the southern tip of Patagonia to northern Alaska. Crossing the Pacific, he cycles into a Siberian winter, carries on through Japan, China and, nearing the end of his journey at last, across Asia and Europe towards his home in Yorkshire.

Paperback: 368pp

Publisher: Eye (2015)

ISBN: 9781903070888

‘Humphreys conveys his loneliness, wanderlust, grit and despair in a manner reminiscent of the great British explorers’ The Guardian

‘He undertook the expedition to find out whether he could write. Believe me, he can’ Geographical

‘What really comes across is his ability to get along with people from all walks of life and not to see anything as insurmountable’ Halfman, Halfbook