“An intriguing travelogue …”
- National Geographic Traveller
“Entertaining and inspiring.”
- James Reed, Chairman, REED
“A crazy cycle trip across Europe resulted in a grand exploration of the world …”
- The Essex County Standard
There’s never been a better time to live on this planet
London – the Jolly Pilgrim sets off on a bicycle ride to Istanbul,
planning a rendezvous with the girl he wants to marry.
Eighteen months later and halfway around the world,
following hospitalisations, financial meltdown, torment and heartbreak,
he goes to live as a hermit in South America,
to explore a bunch of ideas about humanity’s place in the universe.
He swims the Bosporus and works in a drag club,
hitchhikes across Australia and dances salsa in an Ecuadorian prison,
experiences rapture and revelation amidst talismanic historical and religious sites,
endures love, voyeurism, bees, ants, sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll
and in response, conceives …
a message of hope for civilisation.
Part adventure story, part reflection on the state of our species,
this profoundly uplifting, real-life odyssey ends with a call-to-arms
for the human race to be more honest about itself.
It’s time to think bigger
The Jolly Pilgrim is out now as a paperback, on the Kindle, from the Apple iBookstore, as a Waterstones ebook and at all good book shops.
