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 enlarge | Authors: Ewan Mcgregor, Charley Boorman
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 15007
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0743499344
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.41
EAN: 9780743499347
ASIN: 0743499344
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
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 Hop on your BMW and drive away from this book March 8, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of the great things about the best travel writing is that it not only makes you want to travel, you actually want to be there with the author.
Not only did I not want to travel after this book, I have decided to avoid Ewan and Charley and give most of Asia a wide berth. They are miserable characters and you actually wish something bad would happen to them.
 Riding hard February 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
adventure travel to expctic places has always facinated me. This book is a diary written by two men wh took an adventure tour. The descriptions of the landscape and the people they meet are intriguing. The expression of the feelings they experienced gives some idea of what it might be like to take on such an adventure. I highly reccommend this book it is entertaining and facinating.
 NOT a Hardcore Trip January 29, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is about a fully planned, fully prepped, fully sponsored long-distance bike trip with a movie star in tow. It is not like `Jupiter's Travels' or `One-Man Caravan', two excellent books about solo motorcycle travel...
I starting reading this book, hoping that by the end, Ewan and I would be 'friends' via his words and I would identify with his journey, as I am a solo motorcylist myself, having done a lot of long-distance touring. I found that his trip relates to me on virtually no levels.
Ewan and crew have local fixer, chase vehicles, and assistance every step of the way. There's no sense of danger or adventure. It's all a money making vehicle for them. All of the risk and spontaneity has been removed from their trip.
In the book, Ewan basically pees himself everytime he sees someone with a gun, as guns offend his narrow English sensibility. There's a lot of whispering and then they decide they need to leave there right away, as peril is imminent! Doesn't he realize in the real world, outside of the U.K., people use guns on a daily basis both as tools AND to defend themselves and their families.
And he does take basically any chance he can to speak down about America and what this country is about. He dedicates hundreds of pages to the rest of the world, but just a few about his 3,000 miles across the U.S. If you take Route 66 across the U.S., you can see things and meet people that would allow you to fill a 1,000 pages. He just dismisses the whole country as one big strip mall.
In short, this book is about a spoiled movie star, on a fully-prepped trip, basically riding a motorcycle with no sense of adventure or spontaneity. This book is for Ewan McGregor fans, not motorcyclists.
No offense to Ewan or Charley Boorman here, just giving my opinion.
Inspirational December 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a worthwhile read. I found I could not put it down as I was curious to what was going to happen next and the reflections on the experience.
Page Turner November 3, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the book to read on a trans atlantic plane trip. I was laughing out loud and missed the movie which I had actually wanted to see. It's basically documentary so I was not expecting any surprise twists and turns and I didn't get any, just a really good well told account. I enjoyed the book and the "he said/he said" format. I highly recommend this book.
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