Nick Sanders: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: Vol 2

by Nick Sanders

Overview

AFTER A HIGHLY reviewed first volume of Sanders' life-story trilogy, this second book takes automotive autobiographical style to a different level. Again combining the literary history of his past, fused with his life long obsession with adventure, he produces a true story that reads like a novel. This book is about motorcycling and lots of it. Cover to cover from the Atacama to Alaska, Syria and the Middle East, London to Cape Town and beyond and then back again. His family, his loves, dashed dreams, the redemption of an average man all fetch up in a stirring personal mix that marks Nick Sanders as a worthy storyteller. For Nick the individual is the journey and for him personally, attached in spirit with a St.Exupéry or an Eberhardt, asking like Lindqvist 'how many muscles has a human life?'he remains influenced by allegories of existence, and what it means for an ordinary man to try and understand his place in life. If Nick Sanders is an icon it's partly because he's still around. If the journey still continues its because the story's not yet completed. Inspired throughout with seminal works such as Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Durrell's Quartet and work from Sven Lindquist, he has associated himself with 'outsiders.' He was one. He still is.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780957296381
Publisher:	Nick Sanders
Publication date:	02/20/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Nick Sanders is the only person ever to have held records for having motorcycled and bicycled around the world. At one time he held the title 'fastest man around the world on a bicycle' having first accomplished this in 131 days and a second time in a Guinness record of 79 days. He is presently best known for his extreme motorcycle journeys. Having ridden around the world seven times, this included two record circumnavigations of the globe, the second time in a unique 19 days 4 hours. Nick has also motorbiked the length of the Americas eight times and currently holds the record for a double transit from Alaska to Ushuaia and back in 46 days. Yet this "ordinary man in his extraordinary world," as he describes himself, has also cycled to the source of the Nile, across the Sahara to Timbuktu and the length of South America before taking two narrowboats across the English Channel and along the Danube to the Black Sea and back.