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Description - Long Cloud Ride by Josie Dew

After two months on board a Russian container ship sailing 15,000 miles across the world, Josie finally arrives in New Zealand with her bike. Over the next nine months she cycles 10,000 kilometres all over North and South Islands while experiencing the wettest, windiest and stormiest year on record. During this time Josie was spat at, shouted at, honked at, and both run off and blown off the road. She got soaked, sunburnt, hailed on and snowed on and was alternately starved and over-fed, over-charged and under-charged. Then there was the wildlife: the possums (both dead and alive): exotic birds such as moreporks (with their eerie call) and fantails (who decided to follow); the ostriches, who liked to chase English cyclists and the harriers, who liked to dive bomb them; the more familiar but no less frustrating farm animals, who provided sheep-jams and cow-blocks to slow Josie down. In Long Cloud Ride, Josie brings New Zealand brilliantly to life. Warm, witty and acutely observed as ever, her latest adventure is sure to delight old and new fans alike.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9780751535846
ISBN-10: 0751535842
Format: Paperback
(197mm x 127mm x 25mm)
Pages: 352
Imprint: Sphere
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publish Date: 1-Feb-2008
Country of Publication: United Kingdom

Other Editions - Long Cloud Ride by Josie Dew

Long Cloud Ride by Josie Dew

Hardback
(March 2007)

Long Cloud Ride by Josie Dew

Hardback
(March 2007)

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Author Biography - Josie Dew

Josie has cycled 280,000 miles across 43 countries, some by accident. The survivor of 5 continents, several wonky knees & a handful of worn-out bottom brackets, she is still firmly fixed in the saddle. WIND IN MY WHEELS was shortlisted for the 1992 Travel Writer of the Year Award.