14 Top biography books like Africa Solo by Mark Beaumont

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Africa Solo

By: Mark Beaumont

4.22

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his latest world r…

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1. Draft Animals

By: Phil Gaimon

3.60

Format: 246 pages,

From the author of the cult favorite Pro Cycling on $10 a Day and Ask a Pro, the story of one man's… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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2. Inside Team Sky: The Inside Story of Team Sky and Their Challenge for the 2013 Tour de France

By: David Walsh

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Unknown Binding

After the victory of Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky in the 2012 Tour de France, the pressure was on t… read more

Similar categories in David Walsh's Inside Team Sky: The Inside Story of Team Sky and Their Challenge for the 2013 Tour de France book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling

3. Shadow of the Silk Road

By: Colin Thubron

3.88

Format: None pages,

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4. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more

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5. Racing Through the Dark

By: David Millar , Jeremy Whittle

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped… read more

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6. End to End: John O'Groats, Broken Spokes and a Dog called Gretna

By: Alistair McGuinness

3.97

Format: None pages,

In 1996, Alistair McGuinness borrowed his brother's bike to join two friends in their attempt to cy… read more

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7. Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro

By: Phil Gaimon

3.96

Format: None pages,

Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a b… read more

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8. Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker

By: Mark Cavendish

4.00

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

'Boy Racer' steps behind the scenes of the Tour de France. It unmasks the exotic, contradictory, hy… read more

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9. There Are Other Rivers: On Foot Across India

By: Alastair Humphreys

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following t… read more

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10. The Beardless Adventurer and her inconvenience: A first-time cycle trip across Europe

By: None

3.80

Format: 240 pages,

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11. How To Build A Car

By: Adrian Newey

4.48

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but ne… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Newey's How To Build A Car book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. Way Back

By: Sara Cox

4.18

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BIG-HEARTED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THROWN, RADIO 2 BROADCASTER A… read more

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13. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • nonfiction
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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14. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Four Stars: A Life, Reviewed

By: Joel Golby

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier than Joe… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Tour de Force

By: Mark Cavendish

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I pulled off my glasses and wiped my eyes. " That was perhaps the last race of my career..."' Dee… read more

Similar categories in Mark Cavendish's Tour de Force book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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17. The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

By: Geraint Thomas

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike… read more

Similar categories in Geraint Thomas's The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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18. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

By: Jenny Graham

4.56

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Graham's Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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19. Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

By: Emily Chappell

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Emily Chappell's story of transformation into a cross-continental bike racer, pushing the limits of… read more

Similar categories in Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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20. One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

By: Jonathan Vaughters

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, fo… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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21. Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

By: Jason Fox

4.14

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This is a true story. The events depicted took place during the last decade in an unnamed warzone. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"All across the mission, dozens of horror stories were being written. I just had to deal with mine."

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

"The fact that I was considered part of that elite group, and the idea that other people could rely on me, too, felt life-affirming... I told myself, Mate, you’re good at a job where you have to work …"

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

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22. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

By: Nimsdai Purja

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529312249. In Beyond Possible Nimsdai Purja tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Nimsdai Purja's Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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23. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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24. The Break: FEATURED ON THE NETFLIX SERIES TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED

By: Steve Cummings

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*The gripping and revealing au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • cycling
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25. Mountains According to G

By: Geraint Thomas

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribula… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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26. My World

By: Peter Sagan

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly he won three road race World Championships in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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27. Magic Spanner

By: Carlton Kirby

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Mr Cycling, Eurosport commentator Carlton Kirby, offers an expert, behind-the-scenes view of the wo… read more

Similar categories in Carlton Kirby's Magic Spanner book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • nonfiction
  • cycling
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28. Other Ways to Win: A competitive cyclist's reflections on success

By: Lee Craigie

4.57

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

'I rode back down the hill to the athlete's village. Some of Team Scotland had been watching on the… read more

Similar categories in Lee Craigie's Other Ways to Win: A competitive cyclist's reflections on success book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • nonfiction
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29. Reading to Reading: A Bicycle Journey Around The World

By: Tim Millikin

4.47

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

★★★★★ "If you like the books by Alastair Humphreys or Anna Mcnuff you are going to love this."★★★★★… read more

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30. Africa Solo

By: Mark Beaumont

4.22

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his latest world r… read more

Similar categories in Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo book and Mark Beaumont's Africa Solo

  • travelogue
  • africa
  • biography
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
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31. The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more

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"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

20 Top nonfiction books like Africa Solo by Mark Beaumont

Transform Your Habits

Draft Animals

Phil Gaimon

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Inside Team Sky: The Inside Story of Team Sky and Their Challenge for the 2013 Tour de France

David Walsh

3.63

Transform Your Habits

How To Build A Car

Adrian Newey

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

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21 Top audiobook books like Four Stars: A Life, Reviewed by Joel Golby

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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