Fifty Miles Wide

Sayarer’s thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important … An exploration of how people persevere in the darkest of circumstances – Ben East * Guardian *His book took courage on the road and is adventurous on the page. It conveys powerfully what life is like for people on both sides of “the world’s most entrenched impasse”. At the same time, it’s full of free spirits and the joys of freewheeling. – Michael Kerr * Telegraph *Sayarer’s thoughtful, meditative travelogue actually feels very important. This is less a personal adventure than an exploration of how people persevere in the darkest of circumstances – Ben East * Guardian *Vivid and meditative … Hope is found, again and again, nowhere more so than in this wonderful book * Buzz Magazine *A great read by a great travel writer. Takes me right back to some very special places – Levison WoodSayarer is a brilliantly thoughtful writer … One can’t help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous, post-modern genre – Sara WheelerSayarer has made something of a specialism of reporting on the world from the roadside. – Daily TelegraphOn the Road for the Occupy Generation * Open Democracy *Sayarer’s love of the open road and his ability to evoke the beauty of travelling by bike are a potent combination that makes you itch to go cycling * Cycling Active *

Julian Sayarer cycled a half dozen times across Europe to his second nation of Turkiye before before breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, and going on to write Life Cycles (2014). He is the winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Award for Interstate (2016), an account of hitchhiking through middle America, and is the author of Messengers (2016), All at Sea (2017), Fifty Miles Wide (2020), Ondaatje Prize-longlisted Iberia (2021), and Turkiye (2023). Julian combines a background in political science to create a critically acclaimed travel writing style - politics at roadsides. In this 12mph view of the world in passing, he uses human stories and journeys to document global issues for a broad audience. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Financial Times, and in numerous cycling publications.

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