LONG WAY ROUND

CHASING SHADOWS ACROSS THE WORLD

It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world. So he picked up the phone and called Charley Boorman, his best friend, fellow actor and bike enthusiast. "Charley," he said. "I think you ought to come over for dinner."

Riding 20,000 miles across increasingly tough terrain, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream.

'Both McGregor and Boorman prove themselves to be engaging, articulate and entertaining narrators...a highly readable and spiritually uplifting book about a dream come true.' Wanderlust

'Touching and memorable...one for armchair travellers and bike freaks' Daily Mail

Available in Paperback, Hardback and a beautifully illustrated Hardback edition.

The illustrated edition contains over one hundred exclusive photographs from the trip, including dozens taken by Ewan and Charley, and many more from internationally renowned photographer Julian Broad. Many of these pictures have not been published before, and they add up to a unique and vivid pictorial diary of an extraordinary trip.