Tom really wants to be an explorer. His favourite book is an atlas and he follows adventurers not footballers. His schooldays are spent daydreaming about travelling from Tibet to Timbuktu. A private wish blurted out loud started his freewheeling adventure: i'm going to cycle round the world. His classmates laughed. No one believed him, least of all his teacher. The mountains will be too high! The desert is too hot! Everyone shouted their reasons why his dream was impossible. But it was a funny thing, the more that people told him he couldn t do it, the more Tom found himself wanting to prove them wrong.
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Enjoyable to read, whatever your age and remains page-turning to the end - a trick missed by much travelogue. The Boy Who Biked The World deserves a place in the stocking of every cyclist who hopes to pass their passion onto their children. --Tim Dawson (Sunday Times) cycling-books.com
The Boy Who Biked the World is a fun, educational account of the first stage of Tom s journey round the world, riding the length of Africa. --Sustrans
The Boy Who Biked the World is a fun, educational account of the first stage of Tom s journey round the world, riding the length of Africa. --Sustrans
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Alastair Humphreys, in addition to cycling round the world, has also competed in the Marathon des Sables, the 'toughest race on earth,' running 150 miles through the Sahara. Despite breaking his foot during the race he still finished as one of the top ten British runners. He rowed across the channel with Major Phil Packer to raise money for Help For Heroes, travels to Sierra Leone to support his main charity cause: Hope and Homes for Children.
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By Asmodeous
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What a great read - Mr Humphrey's has written a super book that will fire the imagination and sense of adventure of every child and dare them to fulfil their dreams and aim for the highest of aspirations. A book that should be in the library of every child and in every school library - an insight into the spirit of adventure and containing many interesting bits of information that would encourage discussion in the home or classroom. I was fortunate to see Mr Humphrey's earlier this year deliver a seminar to Headteachers in the North Yorkshire region and found him to be truly inspirational (a view shared by everyone who attended the event). Having read his other works and gained much pleasure and insight from them I am delighted that he has taken his experiences and related them in an accessible form for children. This is a book worth reading and deserves the highest praise for its noble concept, originality and readability. Highly recommended! If you wish to inspire future Ernest Shackletons, Scotts or Douglas Mawson's then this book is a must buy.
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By Charlie M
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This is a fantastic book for children...and for adults as I found myself reading it too before giving as a gift to my niece and nephew! Al is great at making stories and ideas accessible for all. Kids will love the handwritten notes that line the path of Tom's journey in this story and open up the world to them to explore.
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By C Monaghan
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This review was written by a group of five 8/9 year olds who read the book in Guided Reading at School:
The Boy who Biked the World is a story about an adventurous boy who wants to cycle around the world, but on the way he must communicate in other languages, travel across borders and cross deserts. In the end he makes it to Cape Town, cycling all the way and having many adventures en route.
This book is not just about cycling, it is also about living your dreams, and it tells us to get up off the sofa, stop watching TV and get out and have an adventure! It has a very positive message, we can all achieve our dreams! We think that it is telling us that we don't know everything and actually we wouldn't WANT to know everything because then we couldn't explore the world and find things out for ourselves. If you cycle, you are closer to nature, you see more and you would feel more proud of your achievement.
We really liked the different fonts, the illustrations (although they would be better in colour), and the fact files in Tom's diary, which give you useful information and translations. The book makes us want to be adventurous, but if Alastair Humphreys writes a sequel, we would like it to have more danger, more near death experiences and more ADVENTURE! Good things happen to Tom all the time, and although he has some hardship, it wasn't very realistic that nothing BAD ever happens. We would definitely read another book about Tom and his cycling adventures!
This review was written by a group of five 8/9 year olds who read the book in Guided Reading at School:
The Boy who Biked the World is a story about an adventurous boy who wants to cycle around the world, but on the way he must communicate in other languages, travel across borders and cross deserts. In the end he makes it to Cape Town, cycling all the way and having many adventures en route.
This book is not just about cycling, it is also about living your dreams, and it tells us to get up off the sofa, stop watching TV and get out and have an adventure! It has a very positive message, we can all achieve our dreams! We think that it is telling us that we don't know everything and actually we wouldn't WANT to know everything because then we couldn't explore the world and find things out for ourselves. If you cycle, you are closer to nature, you see more and you would feel more proud of your achievement.
We really liked the different fonts, the illustrations (although they would be better in colour), and the fact files in Tom's diary, which give you useful information and translations. The book makes us want to be adventurous, but if Alastair Humphreys writes a sequel, we would like it to have more danger, more near death experiences and more ADVENTURE! Good things happen to Tom all the time, and although he has some hardship, it wasn't very realistic that nothing BAD ever happens. We would definitely read another book about Tom and his cycling adventures!
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It is actually a really inspirational book :)
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This book looks ideal for my 9 year old grandson and it is signed by the author too! In fact if it is anything like Alistair's other books it will be a great read for him...and me. Read more
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