” Jupiter`s Travels”
- Ted Simon`s astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world. It is the book that inspired Ewan Mc Gregor`s ” Long Way Round”. In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph & rode 63, 000 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”.