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Following on from the "What cycling book do you want written next?"

Anyone got any recommendations for good touring books?

Few of the books I've read are as follows:

Cycling home from Siberia
Discovery Road
Overlander
The cyclist who went out in the cold
Thunder and sunshine
Plus most of Josie Dew's books.
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Posted : 24/03/2021 3:43 pm
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The reggie books by Andrew Sykes are good

French revolution by Tim Moores good as his other 2 cycling books.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 4:11 pm
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Travels With Rosinante is a good read. Full Tilt is probably the touring book I enjoyed most.

Enjoyed Cycling Home From Siberia also. I read a chunk of it on each leg of a long haul flight, one leg with a lot of clear sky, gazing out of the window across Asia, the middle east and Caucasus area.

Also Matt Lamy's Rides of Passage. A nicely un-epic, well written book about him touring in France with his father.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 5:07 pm
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Timmy Mallet's, Utterly Brilliant!: My Life's Journey.

Meant to be very good and is on my wish list.

Anne Mustoe -A Bike Ride: 12,000 miles around the world.

Discovery Road as above.

Not a fan of Josie Dew beyond her first book.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 6:16 pm
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Chris Hough's A Pedaller to Peking.' You can get second hand copies cheap.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 6:22 pm
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One Man And His Bike Mike Carter.
Read it 3 times now and still love it.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 6:25 pm
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Not quite touring but Last Flight of the Pigeon by Simon Clode is really good.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 6:32 pm
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I think cycling books are a bit dull but i really enjoyed Dividing The Great by Jon Metcalfe


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 6:47 pm
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My missus is reading Another Croissant for the Road. She likes it because it's in France.


 
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http://www.hardmanswainson.com/titles/escape-by-bike/


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 8:01 pm
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Into the Remote Places by Ian Hibell


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 8:35 pm
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Another vote for Mike Carter's One Man and his Bike. An excellent book and a story that I'm sure many of us have wondered about at one time or another.

What would happen if I just carried on cycling past the office and didn't stop?


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 9:28 pm
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'With the Sun on Our Right' by Tim Moss is excellent. Definitely more about people than cycling, which I liked.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 9:33 pm
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Cheers for the suggestions.
A lot of them look good, and I'll be making some purchases


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 10:01 pm
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Miles from Nowhere, a round the world bicycle adventure. By Barbara Savage.
I really enjoyed reading this book. Great story about a couple who sold up to go cycle touring.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 10:20 pm
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Into The Remote Places by Ian Hibell is a classic. I read it ages ago but I am not sure I’d want to follow in his footsteps in the way he did it.

I know it’s been mentioned but think Journey to The Centre Of The Earth by Nick and Dick Crane is brilliant.

I kind of enjoyed Harry Enfield’s dad’s book about riding around Greece. I think it was called Greece on my wheels.


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 10:33 pm
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Kate Harris - Lands of Lost Borders. http://www.kateharris.ca


 
Posted : 24/03/2021 10:38 pm
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Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt


 
Posted : 25/03/2021 1:23 pm
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Enjoyed 50 Shades of the USA by Anna McNuff


 
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