Rolling Through The Isles: A Journey Back Down the Roads that led to Jupiter

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Ted Simon's British motorbike adventure

The Deep Pockets of Stranraer. Rolling Through the Isles: He fell into journalism in Paris and later travelled round the world by motorbike for four years - a journey he chronicled in the classic Jupiter's Travels , which has sold over a million copies. He is the author of several other books including Dreaming of Jupiter , which documented his second journey round the world in He lives in Northern California.

The world's greatest motorcycle journeys. Read by millions worldwide since it was first published in , it is still selling steadily. Back in the early Seventies he was a disillusioned former newspaper executive living in a village near Montpellier, where he was restoring a 13th-century ruin and wondering where the rest of his life might lead.

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He learnt, failing his test the first time, secured a sponsorship deal from a Sunday newspaper, and on October 6 , at the age of 42, wobbled south atop a heavily laden cc Triumph Tiger on a 63,mile journey through odd countries that took him four years. The journey was a unique achievement, impossible to recreate in this age of sophisticated technology and instant global communication. Simon actually appeared in one of their television programmes — he was flown out to Mongolia to meet them — but if he resents their celebrity, he is too classy to admit it.

Along the way, Simon sketches in a life of restlessness and variety, the template for which was set in his early years. The son of an immigrant German mother who brought him up on her own she divorced his Jewish Romanian father in , he went to a progressive German school that was moved from Kent to Shropshire during the Second World War.