|
Book List –
Cycling Touring
|
|
|
Adventure
Cycle-Touring Handbook by Stephen Lord. A useful guide with tips on routes,
equipment and planning for cycle touring.
|
|
Why
don’t you fly? Backdoor to Beijing
– by bicycle, by Christopher J. A. Smith.
A 16,500 mile
adventure from UK to Beijing.
|
|
|
Miles
from Nowhere, by Barbara Savage.
A 23,000 mile global
adventure, 25 countries in two years during the late 1970s.
|
|
The Trail to Titicaca: A Journey Through South America, by Rupert John Attlee.
Three
untrained cyclists set out to cycle from Tierra del Fuego
to Lake Titicaca.
|
|
|
“You can’t ride a bike to Alaska. It’s an island!” by Mickey
Thomas.
A once-in-a-lifetime 3,400 mile bicycle
ride from Montana to Alaska.
|
|
Odysseus’ Last Stand. The Chronicles of a
Bicycle Nomad, by Dave Stamboulis.
The
story of a seven year and 40,000 kilometre
journey around the world.
|
|
|
Discovery
Road by T. Garratt, A. Brown, and Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
This
is a fast moving tale of self-discovery; it is full of adventure, conflict,
humour, danger and a multitude of colourful characters. Much more than a travelogue, it proves
ordinary people can chase great dreams.
|
|
A
Place to Cycle by Rob Penn.
A Place
to Cycle features 25 of the world's most beautiful cycle routes. Each one
has been independently selected for their exceptional beauty and stunning
scenery en route, and graded from an easy, leisurely ride, to more
challenging terrain.
|
|
|
Moods of Future Joys by Alastair
Humphreys.
Moods of Future Joys is the
first part of Alastair’s 4 year cycling adventure
around the world.
|
|
Thunder
and Sunshine by Alastair Humphreys.
This is the second part of Alastair
Humphreys' round the world journey of 46,000 miles from
Cape Town he cycles the Americas and then through Russia, Japan, China
before cycling home.
|
|
|
Around The World On Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary
ride. By Peter Zheutlin
The story of Annie Kopchovsky’s attempt to
circle the world by wheel has been lost to history. How did she manage, in
the 1890s, to make a trip around the world by bicycle? How did she free herself
from the social constraints that surrounded women of the Victorian era to
undertake such an adventure?
|
|
|
|
Cycling Nomads Movie
List
|
|
|
Into the Wild
Freshly
graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22 year-old
Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his
privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him
on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for
countless people. (English language)
|
|
La Lengua de las Mariposas.
A
beautifully shot, perfectly paced film set in a small town during the months
leading up to the Spanish Civil War. This harrowing but uplifting tale
concerns a schoolteacher and his 8 year-old pupil. (Spanish
with subtitles)
|
|
|
The Motorcycle Diaries
In
1952, two young Argentinian men, the medical
student Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and friend Alberto
Granada set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin
America. Guevara's own journals form the basis of Salles's film of this journey of self-discovery as the
two experience the region's rich and varied life and landscape. Gorgeously
filmed, it avoids overt politics while leaning towards Guevara's later
political life. (Spanish with English subtitles)
|
|
Bombon El Perro
When a
middle-aged mechanic made redundant after 20 years helps a stranded
motorist he is paid with a purebred Dogo Argentino named Bombón, a dog
almost twice his size. He begins to dream of a different life after his dog
wins first prize at a local dog show and, aided by a trainer, he discovers
the world of dog shows, where he reclaims his dignity and discovers a new
calling. A simple, lovely film from the director of Historias
Minimas. A film from Argentina
(Spanish with English subtitles)
|
|
|
Historias Minimas
Aka Minimal Stories. A Patagonian road movie and an affectionate portrait
of three small town heroes pursuing their dreams. Beautifully shot. A film
from Argentina
(Spanish with English subtitles).
|
|
City of God
Perhaps
the most exhilarating film of 2003, and one which
takes street crime in the shantytowns of Rio
as its subject. The slum is the battleground between rival gangs and
corrupt cops. It's a story served up with passion and energy but which is
also full of social and political insights. A Brazilian film (Portuguese with English subtitles).
|
|
|
Central Station
Aka Central Do Brasil. A film which will win many hearts. Dora, a
crusty middle-aged spinster, unwillingly becomes responsible for a small
boy, Josue, when his mother dies, and the film
charts the adventures and disappointments in the mini-Odyssey of this odd
couple, as they travel to find Josue's long-lost
father. A Brazilian film (Portuguese with English subtitles).
|
|
Nine Queens
Set in
Buenos Aires
over the course of 24 hours, this is a taut heist thriller in which nothing
is what it seems and no one can be trusted. A naive young con artist teams
up with an experienced master criminal for what could be the crime to end
all crimes. An Argentinean Film (Spanish with English subtitles).
|
|
|
Amores Perros
Voted best
film by the critics at Cannes 2000. Amores Perros explodes onto the screen with a bone-crunching
car crash. The lives of its three victims are then imaginatively interwoven
in this visceral eulogy to life and loss on Mexico's mean streets. A Mexican
film (Spanish with English subtitles)
|
|
Pedro Almodovar
Box Set
An
excellent collection of recent films from the inimitable Spanish director.
Features All About My Mother, Bad Education, Live Flesh, Talk To Her and
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(Spanish films with English subtitles).
|
|
|
La Comunidad
In Madrid, Julia
(Carmen Maura) is a property broker of fifty and something years, trying to
sell an old apartment. Julia finds a neighbor, an old man, dead in a very
dirty apartment, along with three hundred million pesetas in his apartment.
She becomes trapped by the other weird neighbors that want to get the old
man's money for themselves. This tale is one of suspense and greed. A
brilliant black comedy. (A Spanish film with
English subtitles).
|
|
Volver
One of the most acclaimed films of 2006, Volver has been seen in many quarters as Almodovar's masterpiece. Penelope Cruz has never been
better than as Raimunda, a hard-working woman
whose life is a mess. Her sister, meanwhile, is shocked when their mother (Carmen
Maura) returns to lend a helping hand. A warm, delightful film with strong
performances (the female protagonists shared the Best Actress award at Cannes) (Spanish with
English subtitles)
|
|
|
Amelie
Aka Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie
Poulain. Innocent young Amelie
discovers that her true vocation in life is to right wrongs and to help
others find love and happiness. However, something is missing from her own
heart, and when a mysterious photo album land at her feet, it sets her on a
delightfully twisted path through Parisian streets to meet its handsome,
mysterious owner and her own destiny (French with English subtitles).
|
|
Paris Je t’aime
20 directors, 20 short films, 20 vignettes
about life and love in one of the greatest cities on earth, with an
international cast including Steve Buscemi, Gaspard Ulliel, Miranda
Richardson, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche and Nick Nolte. There's something for all
tastes here, and as ever with such collections, there's much enjoyment to
be had from seeing the undoubted successes side by side with the films that
don't quite come off (French with English subtitles).
|
|
|
Kolya
When a financially strapped former
symphony cellist, now making a meagre living by
playing at funerals, gets pressured into a paper marriage with a friend's
single-mother niece, his roving-eye bachelor life is turned upside-down.
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. (Czech
with English Subtitles)
|
|
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Johnny Depp,
Leonardo Di Caprio, Juliette Lewis Meet Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) a young man who lives in Endora,
lowa population 1,901. "Describing it",
says Gilbert, "is like dancing to no
music." Gilbert lives with his mother, whose 36 stone frame is
slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead, his brother, Arnie (Leonardo Di Caprio) who was never expected to survive childhood.
|
|
|
|
|
Y Tu Mama Tambien
This beautifully filmed, expertly acted
film about two 17-year-old, middle class Mexican boys on summer break is
deceivingly complex (Spanish with English Subtitles).
|
|
Filmmaker Bigas Lunas is one of the most successful filmmakers to
emerge from his native Spain.
His films often mix humour and eroticism, are
sometimes brutal, yet always original. This collection includes four of the
director's most well-known films: GOLDEN BALLS, JAMON JAMON,
THE TIT AND THE MOON and THE AGES OF LULU (Spanish with English Subtitles).
|
