by Mark Beaumont · Transworld Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552158442
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«The Man Who Cycled the World» is Mark Beaumont's travel chronicle, published by Transworld Paperbacks in paperback (576 pages, in English).
Mark Beaumont recounts his round-the-world cycle in 194 days and 17 hours, beating the Guinness record by 81 days. Alone and unsupported, he covered more than 18,000 miles at an average of 100 a day, enduring deserts, mountains, heat, wind and an accident in the United States. He also looks back on his childhood in Scotland and his first long-distance routes.
This edition came out in March 2010; the work was originally published in 2009.
For readers of cycling, travel and sports biographies, interested in endurance records.
Mark Ian Macleod Beaumont is a British long-distance cyclist, broadcaster and author. He holds the record for cycling round the world, completing his 18,000-mile (29,000 km) route on 18 September 2017, having taken 78 days and 14 hours. On 18 February 2010 Beaumont completed a quest to cycle the Americas, cycling from Anchorage, Alaska, US to Ushuaia in Southern Argentina, for a BBC Television series.
