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Looking out of the window onto the empty landscape below, the dark shades of brown and green reassured me that, although it was midseptember, it had not yet started snowing in siberia. Cycling home from siberia with rob lilwall national geographic. Cycling home from siberia lilwalls life changing expedition began in 2004 when he flew to the northeastern siberian city of magadan with his bicycle alanis named after singersongwriter alanis morissette and setting off to ride back home. Aug 19, 2010 cycling home from siberia recounts his epic three and a half year, 30,000 mile journey back to england via the foreboding jungles of papua new guinea, an australian cyclone and afghanistans wartorn hindu kush. Watch cycling home from siberia with rob lilwall, tv series. Goodreads members who liked cycling home from siberia also liked. I wasnt going to read the whole thing, just a cursory overview to insure it would hold his interest, but the book caught hold of me and i read it. This book is published by howard books, a division simon and schuster.
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