Moods of Future Joys Around the World by Bike Part One: From England to South Africa

This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey's epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions, he also survives through trust in the kindness of strangers. Moods of Future Joys is a story of the triumphs over adversities, of one man who set off from his home in Yorkshire to cycle the world, fundraise for charity and... to live a little.

Alastair Humphreys is an adventurer, author, and motivational speaker. At the age of 24, he cycled around the world, riding 46,000 miles across five continents and 60 countries. More recently he has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run the Marathon des Sables, completed a crossing of Iceland, and participated in a couple of Arctic expeditions. He was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year for 2012. His previous titles include The Boy Who Biked the World, Ten Lessons from the Road, and Thunder and Sunshine. Ranulph Fiennes is an elite soldier, athlete, mountaineer, and renowned explorer, and the author of 19 books of fiction and nonfiction, including Killer Elite and Race to the Pole.