Around the World on a Bicycle (Classics of American Sport)

If you like this sort of book, you'll also like one about the second circumnavigation of the world by bicycle. That journey, taken by two recent Washington University graduates between 1890 and 1893, was also the first on the modern "safety" bike and the first to take the difficult north China route across the Gobi Desert. On the way, they also became the first Americans to climb Mount Ararat. In this book, they describe the Asian leg of their journey, at that time the "longest continuous land journey ever made around the world."

That book is Across Asia on a Bicycle (ISBN: 1587420201).

Some brave pair should repeat their journey, or at least the Asian leg, which is described in detail in the book. It'd be fascinating to compare what they saw with what can be seen today.Buy Around the World on a Bicycle (Classics of American Sport)!