The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, the author tackles the 9,000 km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. In this book, he reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse - at a time of ratcheting East-West tension.