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Out now to pre-order on AMAZON is the book of Mark Beaumont's record breaking round-the-world solo cycle. On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Paris in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than 18,000 miles on his own through some of the harshest conditions one man and his bicycle can endure, camping wild at night and suffering from constant ailments. "The Man Who Cycled the World" is the story not just of that amazing achievement, but of the events that turned Mark Beaumont into the man he is today. From the early years of his free-spirited childhood in the Scottish countryside, he had been determined to break records, cycling across Scotland and then from John O'Groats to Land's End by the age of fifteen, raising thousands of pounds for charity. After leaving ...
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SAGT 2008: the REPORT On Friday night, after setting up the GA stand, had a meal at the very nice, and very French Le Petit Paris restaurant on Queensferry Road. A windy night followed, and in the morning it rained on and off most of the day. For the second year, the conference was held at Edinburgh Academy. First thing was to grab a coffee and man the GA stand with the other publications, and to start handing out over 150 free satellite image maps of the earth from space, and also have conversations with the 290 odd delegates. The maps were donated by the GeoSphere project . At 9.40 the publishers’ awards, presented by John Vannet, were announced. In the Book category, the GA picked up both the awards that were available. A ‘Commended’ award went to ‘Caring for our World’ by Fran Martin and Paula Owens, and the WINNER in the book award went to the Teacher’s Toolkit. Margaret Roberts collected the awards. It was then across to the Hall for Malcolm McDonald’s Presidential Ad...
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Regular readers of the blog will remember my small part in blogging MARK BEAUMONT's record breaking cycle journey around the world. You can now watch the AD and an accompanying 10 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY at the ORANGE website. It features Val Vannet very briefly, who did the 'blogging journey' alongside Mark, and also lots of scenes inside her classroom...
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Fantastic news. Well done Mark ! More later...
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Mark Beaumont is just a few days away from finishing his epic solo cycle around the world. We have mentioned his trip in quite a few lessons this year. Also a good article in this week's Sunday Times The opening paragraph gives a good flavour for the effort that Mark has put in: Imagine getting up tomorrow, climbing bleary-eyed onto your bike and cycling from Bath to London; or Birmingham to Liverpool; or Belfast to Dublin. Then imagine doing it again the next day. And the next day and the day after that. For six months. Now picture doing the same thing, but in the mountains of the Indus Valley, the torrential rain of Thailand and the mind-melting heat of the Australian outback. Throw in a few nights in a police cell in Pakistan, a collision with a moped in India and a mugging in a Louisiana crack house, and you’ll have some idea of what it takes to cycle around the world in record-breaking time. Val Vannet has continued to blog the journey daily, apart from a short Christmas br...
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Blogging for Christmas.... I've been asked by Val Vannet to take over the reins of GEOBLOGGING WITH MARK This follows the solo-cycling journey that Mark Beaumont is making around the world. He is currently in New Zealand and my job is to record the trip from the South Island up to Auckland and then across to San Francisco to start the penultimate leg of the trip across America. A new AUDIO FILE is also available with Mark being interviewed just before taking the ferry to Wellington. Have downloaded this... A find via BLDGBLOG is the exhibition: 1973: Sorry out of Gas. It is an exhibition looking at the response of architects to climate change. Part of the exhibit is a children's book-style set of graphics looking at the decline of oil by Harriet Russell. Also thanks to Val for this SNOWFLAKE GENERATOR. .. And a final pre-Christmas present comes via a tip off on ODBLOG. This is a set of resources relating to Glaciers. The University of Glasgow have posted a series of resources...