Moods of Future Joys ─ Around the World by Bike: From England to South Africa

An updated edition including new color photographs and a new afterword looking back at the journeyAlastair Humphreys’ around-the-world journey of 46,000 miles was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget, and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans, his ride took four years to complete, on a tiny budget of hoarded student loans. Here is the story of the first remarkable stage of the expedition. Just two weeks into the ride the September 11th attacks changed everything. All Humphreys’ plans went out the window and, instead of riding towards Australia, he suddenly found himself pedaling through the Middle East and Africa and on toward Cape Town. This book recounts an epic journey that succeeded through Humphreys’ trust in the kindness of strangers, at a time where the interactions of our global community are more confused and troubled than ever.

Alastair Humphreys is an adventurer, author, and motivational speaker. At the age of 24, he cycled around the world, riding 46,000 miles across five continents and 60 countries. More recently he has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run the Marathon des Sables, completed a crossing of Iceland, and participated in a couple of Arctic expeditions. He was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year for 2012. His previous titles includeThe Boy Who Biked the World, Ten Lessons from the Road, and Thunder and Sunshine. Ranulph Fiennesis an elite soldier, athlete, mountaineer, and renowned explorer, and the author of 19 books of fiction and nonfiction, includingKiller Elite and Race to the Pole.