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Only Planet: A Flight-Free Adventure Around the World

Ed Gillespie

In an inspirational tale of global adventure Ed Gillespie takes anything but a plane to circumnavigate the world. Cargo ships to camels, hitch-hiking to hovercrafts. Playing table tennis with heavyweight Ukrainian boxers. Border arrests and drug searches. Communing with a Costa Rican jungle sloth. Illustrated with dramacic photography, Ed's journey brings to vivid life the joys, and challenges, of slow, low carbon, overland travel. En route Ed realises that staying grounded in an age of climate change may lead us to rediscover the pleasures of what real travel is all about. Through the journey and adventure he delves into the philosophy of sustainable travel, reconnecting with community and our one and only lonely planet.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Wild Things Publishing
  • Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2014
  • Pages: 312
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 6.00in - 0.90in - 1.35lb
  • EAN: 9780957157385
  • Categories: Special Interest - Adventure

About the Author

Gillespie, Ed: - Born in Norfolk and trained as a marine biologist Ed concluded he was going to spend the rest of his life saying 'if you don't stop catching all the fish, there won't be any fish'. So he co-founded Futerra, a communications company with a mission to make sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal. Ed has worked all over the world, from Jamaica to New Caledonia. He is also a London Sustainable Development Commissioner and Chairman of specialist European rail booking business loco2.com.