The book is related in a fairly conversational tone, as though the two adventurers are telling you stories at the pub, and the chronology jumps around quite a bit in the early stages, with flashbacks to the planning sections while they’re already riding through Europe. I’m really not sure why they chose that style. The style is a bit strange, actually – it regularly cuts between Charley and Ewan, prefacing their segments with their names, but there is no difference whatsoever in their writing style (because, of course, they didn’t really write it) and the only way I could ever remember who was talking was to see whether it was “Charley and I” or “Ewan and I” doing something. I’d already greatly enjoyed the TV series, and since I have motorbikes on the brain at the moment, I recently rewatched it and then picked up the book, which is ostensibly written by both of them but is actually obviously ghostwritten. Long Way Round turned out to be the largest success story of both their careers. McGregor was already quite a famous actor, appearing in Star Wars, Trainspotting and Big Fish Boorman was considerably less well-known, in the shadow of both Ewan and his more famous father John Boorman (the director of Deliverance). Long Way Round is a fairly well-known TV series documenting the journey undertaken by actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in 2004, riding motorcycles all the way around the world from London to New York, across very remote and wild terrain in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Siberia. Long Way Round by Robert Uhlig (2004) 312 p.
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