One Year on a Bike

By Gestalten, Martijn Doolaard,

Book cover of One Year on a Bike: From Amsterdam to Singapore

Book description

The title says it all: one man, one bike, one long ride, the adventure, the pleasure, and the pain. It is simultaneouslya travelogue and visual journey. Martijn Doolaard traded the convenience of a car and the distractions of daily life for a cross-continental cycling journey: a biped adventure that would…

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1 author picked One Year on a Bike as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love it when words and photos enhance each other in a book. Martijn Doolaard wrote and photographed his epic solo journey on his bike from Amsterdam, through Europe, through the middle east, and into the far east. It is one of the rare coffee table books that I actually read and love revisiting frequently to look at the beautiful photos.

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