Written by John F. Kennedy in 1940 when he was still in college & reprinted in 1961 when he was president, this book is an appraisal
...Chris Smith left his Worcestershire home, but instead of cycling the routine twelve miles to work, he kept on pedalling. 13 months later he arrived in Beijing. This is the account of an epic quest to rediscover a misplaced sense of identity in which exhilaration & exhaustion trade positions against a backdrop of prodigious physical endeavour.