While ostensibly a book about cycling around the world for six years this book is so much more. A reflection on humanity, a philosophical discussion of history and how the world is going wrong, but a celebration of humanity, love and kindness particularly from those who have so little.

What an amazing and devastating book. It took me a while to get into but from halfway through, it just built and built.
There are so many similarities between these times and today. Corporate greed and hate of others continue. We forget everyone is human, living and/or struggling with their own lives.
What a wonderful read. What wonderful strength and love among those with so little. I wish everyone read and reflected on this book.

I really enjoyed this book. It's an emotional roller coaster and it been a while since a story made me as annoyed and frustrated in so many different ways.
I'm so glad the world has progressed for women in so many ways, but small minded people continue to wreak havoc for many.

What a great Australian detective novel. I really enjoyed this story, its ongoing twists and turns and characters experience across time.

What a great book. As per the book “a good story doesn‘t just copy life, it pushes back on it”

What an amazing story of an incredible series of journeys and an even more incredible woman. It‘s hard to imagine anyone undertaking such incredible adventures alone and self sufficient.

Such a wonderful book. A triumph of humanity and of living life to the fullest despite adverse circumstances.

A true linguistic painting

An easy and enjoyable read, and a bit different from the movie

Just an amazing book. A story of love amid a sea of hate driven by small minded people. How hate of minorities continues to this day is a tragedy of the human race.

“If power is the ability of others to make you inhabit their story of you, this power can only be contained by the rigidity of ignorance and the inability to question and to learn.”

Such a well researched and well written book. The minimization of women‘s lives not only by society in the 1930/40s but also subsequently by successive biographers is obvious and fury invoking.

What an amazing book. I haven‘t been as angry, ashamed, or cried as much reading a book as I have for a long time. A story of the cruelty and stupidity of society, both in the past and to this day, besides the strength and enduring love still given by those marginalized by it.