Graydon Hazenberg

It's always great to see Pedalling To Kailash out in the wild. This is here at the school library of QSI Tbilisi International School. I hope that some of the students end up reading the book and getting inspired for a mad adventure of their own!!

https://graydonstravels.blogspot.com/2023/12/travel-and-trauma-2023-in-review.html

My annual year-in-review blog post, with lots of travel, some trauma and loss, and lots of photos (in case you don't feel like reading...) Enjoy!!

Travel and Trauma: 2023 in Review Leysin, Switzerland As I sit here in my friend Julie-Ann’s apartment, looking out at a drab, rainy day, it doesn’t look or seem Christma...

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It's an amazing and humbling experience to see my book (bottom left corner) in such illustrious company. Next to Anthony Bourdain, and in the vicinity of Levison Wood, Michael Palin, Wade Davis and William Dalrymple. This is a collection of travel books recommended by Allison Lear, a keen connoisseur of travel literature.

Alison Lear on Twitter “The sun’s out again !!☀️ Some more books to explore 🙌📚 ”

"Graydon and I taught together in Yangon, Myanmar. He is a true Renaissance man…exceptionally talented teacher, tennis player, reader, and traveler. I knew he had biked the Silk Road, and an account of his travels will be published soon. So I was naturally curious and excited to finally have Pedaling to Kailash in my hands.

I knew some details, but was truly impressed, amazed and shocked by what he and his sisters and their partners endured to reach their goal. An intrepid journey for sure with marvelous details of stunning vistas and freezing cold nights and enjoying the warmth and comfort of fellow travelers and locals (not withstanding the rock throwing boys) who provided his group with camaraderie and stories.

You will truly enjoy this book written by an incredibly interesting fellow being and beautifully illustrated by his wonderful partner."

Kind words in a recent review by my former colleague (and fellow tennis fan) Cecile. If you've read Pedalling To Kailash and you haven't yet written a review, I would be eternally grateful if you took a few minutes and did so; you don't even have to leave a written review, just a quick (5-star?) rating. It makes a lot of difference in making my book more visible to the general reading public.

Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World

https://graydonstravels.blogspot.com/2023/01/2022-looking-back-at-year.html

A look back at the travels that marked 2022 for me. Enjoy!!

2022: Looking Back at the Year Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda Somehow the ellipse has (more or less) closed on itself after 365.24 days of orbital motion and we are once agai...

Merry Christmas from the Ugandan road. Hope you and your loved ones are having a wonderful holiday season! Check out

https://youtu.be/M2ifz606FnU

for our Stanley's Travels Christmas video

A Christmas Message for Everyone! Just a quick video to wish you all a Merry Christmas, wherever you are around the world!

Our latest Stanley's Travels YouTube video is now up. This week features our visit to the Kalahari Trails meerkat sanctuary in the far north of South Africa, very near the Kgalakgadi Transfrontier Park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qqLkDyokHM

Hope you enjoy it!

Frolicking with meerkats in the Kalahari! We spent a fabulous few days at the Kalahari Trails meerkat sanctuary in northern South Africa, just outside the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It was amazing...

I haven't been posting on here for a while, since I've re-started another adventure, that of driving around Africa. Please check out the FB page that my partner Maree and I have created to document the trip:

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Also, keep an eye on my blog:

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and our Stanley's Travels YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyaqdj8wj8Omge72yxI8UkQ

I hope to write another travel book about our travels through Africa, so please stay tuned!

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I am the interview guest this week on Ruth Millington's Extreme Holidays Podcast, talking about the bicycle trip I did in 1998 across Pakistan and Tibet to sacred Mt. Kailash. It was a fun interview and I think it will make an entertaining listen. As always, if you enjoy the interview and haven't read the book about the journey (Pedalling To Kailash), please consider buying it; it's a great read!

Be sure to listen to this podcast episode, in which Ruth Millington interviews me for her Extreme Holidays podcast. It was a fun interview to record, talking about the trip I wrote about in Pedalling To Kailash. Maybe it will encourage you to buy the book!

Extreme Holidays Podcast: Episode16 - Epic Bicycle Trips: Pakistan to Tibet’s Mount Kailash 🎧For the full episode click on below and follow the link: https://linktr.ee/ruthmillingtonauthor... On today’s show, I’m speaking to global nomad, keen bicy...

Once again my interview with Aaron Millar on his outstanding Armchair Explorer podcast has entertained one of my friends on a long flight. I'm glad to see the interview out in the wild; now if only it would encourage more folks to buy the book!

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Great to see schoolchildren in the UK reading my book; their teacher is trying to encourage them to read, and some of them want adventure books, so mine seems to qualify!

https://www.amazon.com/Pedalling-Kailash-Cycling-Adventures-Misadventures/dp/1777593611

Hard to believe that it's been a year since Pedalling To Kailash was launched into the world!!

Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World

I forgot to post this, but my interview with Aaron Millar on his Armchair Explorer podcast has recently been appearing in the inflight entertainment audio selection on Singapore Airlines (and possibly some others). It makes me feel like a real author!! (Thanks to a couple of keen-eyed readers who spotted this!)

This reader was so glad to get a copy of Pedalling To Kailash that she couldn't resist opening it before Christmas. If you have any lovers of travel literature, cycling, mountains, Tibet or history on your gift list, consider buying them a copy of Pedalling To Kailash. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08X6GTK43

It's December 5th (how did that happen so quickly? 2021, what have you done to the flow of time?), and some of you may (like me) still be wondering what Christmas presents to get your loved ones this year. If so, remember that books are always a good choice, and that Pedalling To Kailash is a great read for anyone on your list who's interested in history, mountains, Tibet, cycling, travel and culture. (Also suffering and hunger...) I think it's a great read, and I hope your loved ones would agree!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08X6GTK43

Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World

Another podcast interview that I recorded about Pedalling To Kailash will appear tomorrow. This one is with Jeremy Bassetti; his Travel Writing World podcast is an amazing resource, interviewing well-known authors like Colin Thubron and unknowns like me. Details to follow as soon as I get them.

https://www.travelwritingworld.com/category/travel-writing-world-podcast/

Travel Writing World Podcast - Travel Writing Interviews and Resources Join Travel Writing World podcast host Jeremy Bassetti as he talks with the world’s most celebrated travel writers about their work.

For those of you in the UK, Amazon.co.uk has the e-book version of Pedalling To Kailash on special for the next week, a bargain at £3.99. Makes a great Christmas gift for yourself or someone else! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pedalling-Kailash-Cycling-Adventures-Misadventures/dp/1777593611/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1L8XN0P9T2C63&keywords=pedalling+to+kailash+hazenberg&qid=1637035650&sprefix=pedalling+to+kailash+hazenberg%2Caps%2C424&sr=8-1

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Another long (very long) blog post about our trip through central Turkey in August. Lots of photos, in case you don't want to read all the words. It was a really enjoyable trip, with lots and lots of history (and prehistory): Hittites, Phrygians, early Bronze Age, the dawn of settled sedentary life at Catal Hoyuk and Asikli Hoyuk. Hope you enjoy reading this!

Graydon's Travels The ongoing travel adventures of a Canadian-born global nomad.

This week Kirkus Reviews, one of the biggest book review sites in the world, is running ads this week for Pedalling To Kailash. I hope both that it will stimulate sales, and that it will pique the interest of literary agents and publishersvin this book as well as in future projects.

https://www.nomadicbackpacker.com/top-3-favourite-countries-graydon-hazenberg.html

Which southern African country made my list of top 3 countries in which to travel? Click to find out. This is a guest post on the Nomadic Backpacker's blog.

Top 3 Favourite Countries of Graydon Hazenberg Graydon Hazenberg, traveller, author and photographer, veteran of more than 130 countries talks about his top 3 favourite countries

It was a great feeling to hold the physical paperback book in my hands for the first time a few weeks ago here in New Zealand (it was complicated to get it delivered to Indonesia, where I was before). It feels even more real than to read the book on my Kindle.

The maps for the new book, Silk And Solitude, about cycling the ancient Silk Road from China to Turkey, have been drawn. I think these beautiful maps will add a lot to the reader's enjoyment of the book. Can't wait to get this adventure out into the world!

It's been a little while since I posted book photos, so here we go. One of the book on the island of Maui, one in Vermont, one at Silver Islet (outside my hometown of Thunder Bay) and one of the book being read in Cairo. I probably have the highest ratio of countries-to-copies-sold of almost any author on earth! (Which says more about the denominator than the numerator....)

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This was a really fun interview that I recorded last week with Aaron Millar, the host of the Armchair Explorer podcast, about the journey recounted in Pedalling To Kailash. Aaron is a very skilled editor and manages to splice my blatherings into a much more coherent narrative, along with his own narration. It's a great episode, and I hope some of you take the time to give it a listen while driving or exercising or cooking or doing household chores. Enjoy!

Armchair Explorer - Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Across the Roof of the World with Adventurer Graydon Hazenberg Follow travel author and adventurer Graydon Hazenburg on an epic bike journey from Islamabad, in Pakistan, all the way to Mount Kailash, in Tibet thousands of miles away. Travelling across four of the great mountain ranges in the world, the Pamir Mountains, the Hindu Kush, the Karakorum and the Hima...

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Great to see Pedalling To Kailash being mentioned in the same breath as books by great travel writers like Levison Wood, Tharik Hussein and Julian Sayerer, not to mention Alastair Humphreys!

Alison Lear on Twitter “'Keep reading. It's one of the most marvellous adventures anyone can have.' - Lloyd Alexander And there are so many lovely reads to take you on a literary adventure close to home or around the world. These are some that I love. 📚🌍 ”

And two more countries where Pedalling To Kailash has arrived and is being read: Chile and Denmark. It gives me great joy to see the wide reach that this book is attaining! Please keep these sorts of pictures coming in!

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If you haven't done so already, please check out my website. It has loads of photos, maps, travel writing and news about Pedalling To Kailash. You might find something enjoyable to while away some idle minutes. And please let your friends know about the website too!

Traveller, author and photographer Hot off the Press: Pedalling to Kailash

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/graydon-hazenberg/pedalling-to-kailash-cycling-adventures-and-misadventures-across-the-roof-of-the-world/

Kirkus Reviews, one of the largest book review sites in the English-speaking world, has published a review of Pedalling to Kailash and it's really positive! They say, among other things, that the book is "An erudite, informative, and highly readable cycling account."

They also note that
"Hazenberg’s affinity for literature is prominent throughout this sharply penned book. The author effortlessly transports readers using his concisely evocative, descriptive style."

They conclude by saying that "Far from presenting mundanely reworked field notes, as is sometimes common in this genre, this is a refreshingly intelligent, multifaceted memoir that will entertain and inspire cyclists of all abilities.

I'm very pleased that the reviewers had so many nice things to say about the book, and I hope that it convinces a few more of you to press "Buy Now" on the Amazon page for the book.

PEDALLING TO KAILASH | Kirkus Reviews A debut memoir chronicles the adventures of a small band of cyclists nicknamed the Xtreme Dorks who set off for Tibet.