Ted Simon Collection

Get all three of Ted Simon's great books in one bundle of adventure motorcycle reading! 

Jupiter's Travels

Ted Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In four years he covered seventy-eight thousand miles through forty-five countries, living with peasants and presidents, in prisons and palaces, through wars and revolutions. What distinguishes this book is that Simon was already an accomplished writer. In twenty-five years this book has changed many lives and inspired many to travel, including Ewan McGregor.

Riding High

Riding High is packed with untold episodes from the Jupiter journey of Ted Simon's book Jupiter's Travels: his confrontations with a murderous military in Chile, his farcical arrest in India, bizarre customs in Thailand and Malaysia, his hilarious entanglements with a bottle of bad Dubonnet in Ecuador, and many more. Simon contrasts them with the touching and turbulent events that followed his return to domesticity and explains what became of him in "life after travel."

Dreaming of Jupiter

Back in the seventies, Ted Simon drove a Triumph motorcycle around the world. His book, Jupiter's Travels, became the acknowledged classic of motorcycle adventure. It inspired thousands, Ewan McGregor included, to roam the globe. Now in his own seventies, thirty years after his epic journey began, Ted has retraced that epic journey, still on a bike, to rediscover himself, his world, and the memorable characters he met. A remarkable perspective on the world today.