Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World

In the spirit of Around the World in Eighty Days, Seth Stevenson sets off with fellow traveller Rebecca as expert navigatrix, determined to savour every unexpected bump in the road - and see everything you miss by flying over it. He bunks on cargo freighters, cruise ships and ferries, rides on rickshaws, motorbikes and double-decker buses, drives a car across the Australian outback, pedals a bicycle through Vietnam, rattles across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway - and even abandons Rebecca in Singapore to maintain his 'no fly' rule. This funny, wise and thoroughly entertaining armchair tour around the world is a timely reminder of what travelling should be.