Part Two: Riding the Americas
Boy Who Biked the World Series
Author: Alastair Humphreys
Illustrator: Tom Morgan-Jones
Book 2 in the Boy Who Biked the World series
Pages: 192
Published: 2012
Age: 9+
In volume two of this marvelous cycling adventure, Tom – a young English boy who decides cycling solo around the world would be a better classroom than the confines of school – heads north from the tip of South America.
Having cycled the depth of Europe and the length of Africa, Tom now decides to make his way through the Americas. With a long uphill struggle facing him, Tom has the massive Andes and raging Amazon to contend with in South America, deserts and grizzly bears in North America, and a colorful array of characters all along the way. With engaging illustrations, maps, and handwritten journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.
About the Boy Who Biked the World Series
Books in series order
- 1.Part One: On the Road to Africa(2011)
- 2.Part Two: Riding the Americas(2012)
- 3.Part Three: Riding Home through Asia(2016)
Reading age: 9+ years
This series should be read in order.
Discover the world by bicycle in book one of a delightful children's adaptation of Alastair Humphrey's journey around the world. In this charming caricature of Alastair Humphreys' infamous circumnavigation of the world on his bike, children are swept along with the character of Tom, an adventurous boy who feels there must be more to life than school.
Tom sets out to leave England, cycling through Europe and all the way through Africa to the tip of South Africa. He journeys through the Americas and Asia in subsequent instalments. Along the way, young readers are introduced not only to the various fascinating landscapes he passes through, but also to the various people who so happily embrace him as he traveled on his journey. With engaging illustrations and journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.