Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world The book that inspired Ewan Mc Gregor's Long Way Round In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph & rode 63000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world Through breakdowns prison war revolutions disasters & a Californian commune he travelled into the depths of fear & reached the heights of euphoria He met astonishing people & was treated as a spy a welcome stranger & even a god For Simon the trip became a journey into his own soul & for many others
- including bikers Charley Boorman & Ewan Mc Grergor
- it provides an inspiration they will never forget This classic text which has informed a whole genre of travel writing in the thirty years since it was first published will never be bettered for sheer adventure passion humour & honesty Brought up in England by a German mother & a Romanian father Ted Simon found himself impelled by an insatiable desire to explore the world It led him to abandon an early scientific career in favour of journalism & he has worked for several newspapers & magazines on Fleet Street & elsewhere Ted Simon is also the author of Riding Home & The Gypsy in Me