On a summer morning in 2001, Alastair Humphreys left his home in Yorkshire on a bicycle with a deceptively simple plan: keep riding until he had travelled around the world. He was 24 and had recently finished his studies, but instead of settling into a conventional career, he chose to spend the next several years on the road. What began as an ambitious idea became a 46,000-mile journey through 60 countries and five continents, lasting more than four years.
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