Julian Sayarer

Julian grew up riding a bicycle into neighbouring counties and then countries. Having cycled a half dozen times across Europe to his second nation of Turkey, in his mid-twenties, he broke a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle – riding 18,049 miles through 20 countries in 169 days. He has won the UK’s Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Award, for an account of a hitchhiked journey through middle America, mapped the modern city from the perspective of a bicycle messenger, and travelled by boat to remote islands in Asia, chronicling a world and people at the edge of modernity. Julian combines a background in political science to create a critically acclaimed travel writing style – politics at roadsides. In this 12mph view of the world in passing, he uses human stories and journeys to document global issues for a broad audience. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, Aeon Magazine, and many others, including numerous cycling publications.