Overlander : one man's epic race to cross Australia

Title:

Author:

Guinness, Rupert author

ISBN:

9781925640090

Additional ISBN:

9781925640090

Personal Author:

Guinness, Rupert author

Publication Information:

Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Physical Description:

xix, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits (chiefly colour), colour map ; 24 cm

Personal Subject:

Guinness, Rupert-Travel-Australia.

Conference Subject:

Indian Pacific Wheel Race (Bicycle race)

Subject Term:

Cyclists -- Australia -- Anecdotes.

Bicycle racing -- Australia.

Language:

English

Abstract:

A powerful memoir about a bike race that led to an inspiring personal journey. In March 2017 Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race. This was no ordinary bike race - unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness had made his name reporting for decades - competitors would ride completely unassisted from Fremantle in Western Australia to the Opera House in Sydney on the other side of the country. There would be no help, just riders and their bikes crossing one of the most beautiful - and often inhospitable - places on earth. Rupert wanted to rediscover the rich but little recognised history of the pioneering cyclists whose rides throughout Australia from the 1860s unveiled a largely unknown interior - but what he discovered was the extraordinary strength and endurance of the human spirit. A searing tragedy on the road stopped everyone in their tracks, and competitors had to make some of the toughest decisions they had ever faced. A powerful memoir of a race and of a journey of the human spirit, across one of the most challenging landscapes in the world.

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A powerful memoir about an epic bike race across one of the most challenging landscapes in the world.

Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race.

This would be no ordinary bike race. Unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness made his name reporting on for decades, competitors would ride completely unassisted from Fremantle in Western Australia to the Opera House in Sydney on the other side of the country - a gruelling distance of over 5,000 kilometres that would not only test riders' physical endurance but their psychological resilience as well. Dubbed 'The Hunger Games on Wheels', there would be no help, just riders and their bikes crossing one of the most beautiful - and most inhospitable - places on earth.

Rupert's mission was to test his own grit, physical and emotional, as he followed the trail of the pioneering men and women whose historic rides over the last two centuries unveiled a largely unknown interior.

But when a terrible tragedy stopped competitors in their tracks, Rupert was forced to make one of the toughest decisions he had ever faced - and ultimately, what he discovered was the extraordinary power of the human spirit.