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The first part of these stories, from England to Malaysia, left thousands of readers wanting more. Here, at last, is the continuation of Jonathan B. Roy's cycling adventures. Roy's cycling adventures, from Southeast Asia to South America, via China and Japan.On dirt roads, city verges or long deserted highways, it pedals slower than its shadow, arousing curiosity, admiration or amazement. In the deluge, in scorching heat or with a 100 km/h headwind, he crosses geographical and social boundaries. He boards a container ship in Singapore, spends the night in a love hotel in South Korea, encounters Gretzky in China and a puma in the Andes, dines at a billionaire's table in Brazil, and sinks into the bowels of a mine in Bolivia. When he's not pitching his tent by the side of the road, he's enjoying local hospitality, meeting the «good people» who line his travels.
Here, he delivers a humanist tale tinged with humor and poetry, reflecting his benevolent curiosity about this contrasting and fascinating world. And turns us, the readers, into intrepid vicarious travelers.