Riding High - Simon, Ted
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Riding High is packed with untold episodes from the "Jupiter" journey - his confrontations with a murderous military in Chile, his farcical arrest in India, bizarre customs in Thailand and Malaysia, his hilarious entanglements with a bottle of bad Dubonnet in Ecuador and many more. Simon contrasts them with the touching and turbulent events that followed his return to domesticity, and explains what became of him in 'life after travel.'

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Riding High is packed with untold episodes from the "Jupiter" journey - his confrontations with a murderous military in Chile, his farcical arrest in India, bizarre customs in Thailand and Malaysia, his hilarious entanglements with a bottle of bad Dubonnet in Ecuador and many more. Simon contrasts them with the touching and turbulent events that followed his return to domesticity, and explains what became of him in 'life after travel.'
Autorenporträt
Born 1931 and raised in London, Ted Simon emerged from World War II with a desperate urge to travel. Simon has worked as a newspaper and magazine editor and foreign correspondent, personally restored a 13th century French ruin, pioneered organic agriculture in California, and wrote an authoritative book on water politics. He repeated the "Jupiter" journey at age 72. He resides in Round Valley, California, north of San Francisco.