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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.
Cheers
The reggie books by Andrew Sykes are good
French revolution by Tim Moores good as his other 2 cycling books.
Crane cousins https://kickasstrips.com/2013/12/richard-and-nicholas-crane-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth/
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.
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.
Chris Hough's A Pedaller to Peking.' You can get second hand copies cheap.
One Man And His Bike Mike Carter.
Read it 3 times now and still love it.
Not quite touring but Last Flight of the Pigeon by Simon Clode is really good.
I think cycling books are a bit dull but i really enjoyed Dividing The Great by Jon Metcalfe
My missus is reading Another Croissant for the Road. She likes it because it's in France.
Into the Remote Places by Ian Hibell
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?
'With the Sun on Our Right' by Tim Moss is excellent. Definitely more about people than cycling, which I liked.
Cheers for the suggestions.
A lot of them look good, and I'll be making some purchases
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.
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.
Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt
Enjoyed 50 Shades of the USA by Anna McNuff