Ted Simon

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Ted Simon (* 1931 ) is a journalist and adventurer. He was born in Germany as the son of a German communist and a Romanian Jew.

Career

As a journalist he worked for the Daily Mail , The Observer and The Times, among others .

His motorcycle rides

In 1973 he set out on a four-year circumnavigation of the world on his Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle . During this time, he traveled through 45 countries and covered over 125,000 kilometers .

Jupiter's Journey , his 1979 book about these experiences, became an international bestseller with well over 400,000 copies and made Ted Simon a cult figure. With the book Riding High , the second part about his journey, he closed some of the gaps in the first book.

In 2001, at the age of 70, he again circled the globe on his converted BMW R 80 GS , crossed Europe, traveled from Tunis to the Cape of Good Hope , crossed to Brazil and drove through North America . He explored New Zealand and Australia and returned to Europe via the Asian continent after two and a half years on the road . He covered 95,000 km in 48 countries. He describes the experiences of this second trip in his book Jupiter's Dreams .

He also wrote the book The Gypsy in Me , which is about finding his parents' roots in Eastern Europe; In 2007 his latest work was published about his motorcycle rides: Jupiter's Dreams .

His book Jupiter's Ride inspired actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman to travel Long Way Round from London to New York City on motorcycles, on which they met Ted in Mongolia .

Ted Simon now lives in London and northern California , where he grows organic products on a farm .

Quote

“Despite the wars and tourism and satellite images, the world is still as big as it always was. I am in awe of how much of her I will never see. Traveling the world these days is not an affair because if you pay a ton of money you can fly around them in less than forty-eight hours without stopping, but to get to know them, smell them and feel them between your toes you have to crawl. There's no other possibility. Neither fly nor float on the water. You have to stay on the ground and swallow the insects while moving. Then the world is of immense size. "

literature

  • Jupiter's ride: around the world on a motorcycle . Rowohlt Verlag , 1993, ISBN 3-499-12653-2 , p. 400 .
  • Jupiter's dreams: around the world on a motorcycle . Rowohlt Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-499-62388-9 , pp. 480 .
  • Another way of traveling without limits: the journey of life. About being on the road and arriving . Rowohlt Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-499-17562-2 .
  • Ride of life. On the road and arriving , Rowohlt Tb, 1985, ISBN 3-499-17562-2 .
  • Jupiter's Travels , H Hamilton, June 1979, ISBN 0-241-10180-8 .
  • Dreaming of Jupiter , Little, Brown, March 1, 2007, ISBN 0-316-73227-3 .
  • Riding High , Jupitalia Productions, August 1998, ISBN 0-9654785-1-3 .
  • The Gypsy in Me: From Germany to Romania in Search of Youth, Truth, and Dad , Random House Inc (T), June 1997, ISBN 0-679-44138-7 .
  • The River Stops Here: How One Man's Battle to Save His Valley Changed the Fate of California , Random House Inc (T), September 1994, ISBN 0-679-42822-4 .
  • The River Stops Here: Saving Round Valley a Pivotal Chapter in California's Water Wars: Saving Round Valley, a Pivotal Chapter in California's Water Wars , University of California Press, June 2001, ISBN 0-520-23056-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Simon, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and adventurer
DATE OF BIRTH 1931