Juliana Buhring is an adventurer who entered the Guinness Book of Records as the first woman to circumnavigate the world on a bicycle in the shortest time. Against the Wind is the book in which he wrote his journey around the world.
About Juliana Buhring
Juliana Buhring is a woman who lived a very different life before traveling the world by bike and spent her childhood in unimaginable ways. I won't give any more tips because I want you to pick up the book and read it for the details.
Juliana is the first female cyclist to set a Guinness World Record for the fastest time to circumnavigate the world on a bicycle, and no one has yet broken the record. What's more interesting is that he started cycling just one year before he broke the record, in 1.
After breaking the record to cycle around the world in the shortest time; She finished the race in 2013th place as the only woman who participated in the Intercontinental Cycling Race held between London and Istanbul in 9. In 2014, she finished 4th overall in the Trans Am Cycling Race. Juliana is considered one of the strongest ultra-endurance racers in the world.
There is another book by Juliana Buhring called “Not Without My Sister”, it was on the international bestseller lists, but I think I couldn't find it translated into Turkish. She writes regularly on her self-titled blog.
My Comments on Against the Wind
Upwind The book tells a true adventure, a human story. Since it is written like a diary, you find yourself in that adventure when you start reading the first pages. Let me start my comments by saying that I have not read and finished a book so quickly in a long time.
While traveling, I witnessed that many women I met on the road and who had traveled for a long time started to travel as a result of trauma. Some broke up with their lover, some lost their baby… Juliana also loses the man she loves and embarks on this journey to cope with this pain and honor the man she loves. However, as we continue to read the book, we realize that Juliana has been through great traumas since her childhood and had to constantly struggle with life. It should be noted that this fighting spirit is strong enough to break the record of traveling around the world in the shortest time on a bicycle without ever riding a bicycle before.
In the book, we witness their confrontation with the past along with the stories they lived on the road. With this aspect, it would be unfair to call this book, which we can put in the category of personal development book, only a travel book.
Turkish publisher of the book, Against the Wind Garage Book's translation should be given its right. The most difficult part when reading such foreign travel books is that the language cannot catch the same fluency no matter how fluent the story is due to bad translation. The translation of this book is as fluent as its story.
The sale price of the book is only 19 TL. Everyone who has an interest in cycling, who likes to travel, struggle, and who is only interested in personal development, should definitely buy this book.
Click here to purchase the book Against the Wind.
Stay on the road and read a lot…