Name: Walking Home from Mongolia
Price: 15.31 GBP
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Author: Rob Lilwall
ISBN: 9781444745283

'Cycling Home from Mongolia' author Rob Lilwall's unique adventure through freezing China from Mongolia to Hong Kong - this time on foot.

Several years have passed since he returned from his life-changing, three-and-a-half-year bike ride home from Siberia and amateur adventurer Rob Lilwall has itchy feet once more. Now his adventurous spirit leads him to deepest Mongolia, setting out on foot this time, on a very long walk back home to Hong Kong. Rob and his cameraman companion Leon take a 3,000 mile hike through the dramatic landscapes and extreme temperatures of back road China - in winter. In this page turning tale of endurance and survival, we visit a host of rarely seen parts of rural China and hear fascinating stories from the people who dwell in the remote plains of the Gobi Desert.

Rob writes with humour and honesty about the physical hardships of his trip and reflects on the absurdity of life, the importance of faith and on the benefits of not taking oneself so seriously.

Walking Home from Mongolia and Cycling Home from Siberia

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If you like travelogues this is definitely for you! We are advised to walk at least three miles a day, and not many of us achieve that. Rob Lilwall and Leon McCarron walked over 3,000 miles from Sainshand, in Mongolia to Hong Kong, often at over 25 miles a day. At first sight it looks a large book, but with short chapters inviting the reader to go on to the next, it was a book I could hardly put down. The writing is lively and paints graphic pictures from conditions of extreme cold to extreme heat, trekking over mountains, encounters with Chinese police, running out of money, running out of food, sleeping in the open, in cheap hotels, encountering and avoiding bureaucracy, and being welcomed with generous hospitality in remote places. My copy was a proof print without maps or pictures so a good atlas was necessary but the published edition will have both so it should be easier to follow their journey. For a good read it can be thoroughly recommended.

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