Ultimate Cycling Trips: World features 35 handpicked destinations for the best slow travel on two wheels.

Including detailed descriptions, suggested itineraries, maps, photos and even interviews with world cyclists, the Ultimate Cycling Trips: World is the perfect guide for planning your own cycling adventure. There are trips to suit every fitness level, from riding through the Italian and French Riviera, to Canada’s wildlife-rich Icefields Parkway, and the volcanic island of Jeju off the southern tip of South Korea.

As we grow more anxious about our planet, author Andrew Bain offers cycling trips as one way to minimise our environmental impact while on holiday. If that wasn’t enough, there are also the added benefits of improving your fitness and becoming more immersed in your surroundings.

Now has never been a better time to see the world by bike.

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The Ultimate books offer the very best of travel in Australia and beyond, from road trips to train journeys, and cycling routes to hiking trails. Beautifully designed for easy use, these books will inspire you to make the most of your trip with detailed maps, photos, itineraries, and essential information on your route, including things to see and do, where to eat and kid-friendly attractions.

The Ultimate series won’t just help you on your upcoming adventure, it will inspire you to plan your next one.

About the Author

Andrew Bain is an award-winning travel writer, specialising in outdoor adventure, who can usually be found cycling when he should be working. He's the author of Headwinds (2003, Hardie Grant Books), the story of his 20,000-kilometre bike ride around Australia, and is also the author of Where to Ride Tasmania and Lonely Planet's Cycling Australia guidebook. He continues to write stories on cycling around the world for various publications, including Lonely Planet's Epic Bike Rides of the World.