Diego Ballesteros Huesca was reunited yesterday with many friends in the presentation of "12,822 miles. De Zaragoza to Beijing by bicycle," a book written from the heart "that goes Beyond chronicling trips. The cyclist told Barbastro in the auditorium of the County's "madness" which led in 2008 to emulate Marco Polo and walk in 99 steps the distance between Beijing Zaragoza. The goal, to unite the two cities in the year of hosting the Expo and the Olympics. Many then followed the adventure through your blog and be happy when on August 23 arrived in Beijing after joys, setbacks and even some stone. After him when he suffered a serious accident left him in a wheelchair in the Race Across America. The 544 pages of his first literary foray exude emotion and honesty. "I tried to read this book which is riding with me." With this simple sentence, Diego said yesterday his intentions and hoped that "the book does not leave anyone indifferent, it is written from the heart."
addition to this work, a short film directed by Javier Meler summarizes some moments of the trip, some funny, some cherished, all emotional. Friends who was found, countries, some unpronounceable, for the crossing. A sand core with your name, a child with the Madrid shirt, a potluck dinner with a family in a country lost talk about feelings rather than objective.
Alexander, brother of the protagonist, he recalled details of the affair and led an act involving people who have worked in the book. Beatriz Gimeno, author of the cover, illustrator Santiago Sánchez and Pedro Solana, sidekick sports and author of the foreword. They all also friends, as is Antonio Cosculluela, president of the council, the mayor of Barbastro and one of the first to know about the project. "He opened the computer and told me detail by detail. Named countries, never better, I sounded like Chinese, "he said with a smile. He also recalled how at first took some believed in the project and assessing the quality of its author," great athlete, a teacher, but above all as a human being, a humble man as they come. "
Beatriz Gimeno welcomed the opportunity to create a cover page that was clear at the outset appear to be the image of his character. Among the possible images, selected one in which camera, behind him, involves the reader of the landscape, and a convenient backlit "says the challenge facing the adversity of the journey." In the end, she was pleased to have achieved "that this cover is a gateway to a great adventure." A Santiago Sánchez
sounded "there was a madman who was out there with a bicycle." When he got to know the story thoroughly and do not hesitate to illustrate his pencil drawings with a book is not just a travel journal, and not all joy. " His drawings show human types and express what Diego could not shoot.
Pedro Solana, mountaineer, writer and sidekick, said that "it was not hard" to end a foreword he wrote "with his heart in his hand." In his speech recalled his beginnings in the mountain slopes and some adventures, not fabrications, the Camino de Santiago, by trekking in the Himalayas or cycling through the Pyrenees.
Source: Journal of Altoaragón .
addition to this work, a short film directed by Javier Meler summarizes some moments of the trip, some funny, some cherished, all emotional. Friends who was found, countries, some unpronounceable, for the crossing. A sand core with your name, a child with the Madrid shirt, a potluck dinner with a family in a country lost talk about feelings rather than objective.
Alexander, brother of the protagonist, he recalled details of the affair and led an act involving people who have worked in the book. Beatriz Gimeno, author of the cover, illustrator Santiago Sánchez and Pedro Solana, sidekick sports and author of the foreword. They all also friends, as is Antonio Cosculluela, president of the council, the mayor of Barbastro and one of the first to know about the project. "He opened the computer and told me detail by detail. Named countries, never better, I sounded like Chinese, "he said with a smile. He also recalled how at first took some believed in the project and assessing the quality of its author," great athlete, a teacher, but above all as a human being, a humble man as they come. "
Beatriz Gimeno welcomed the opportunity to create a cover page that was clear at the outset appear to be the image of his character. Among the possible images, selected one in which camera, behind him, involves the reader of the landscape, and a convenient backlit "says the challenge facing the adversity of the journey." In the end, she was pleased to have achieved "that this cover is a gateway to a great adventure." A Santiago Sánchez
sounded "there was a madman who was out there with a bicycle." When he got to know the story thoroughly and do not hesitate to illustrate his pencil drawings with a book is not just a travel journal, and not all joy. " His drawings show human types and express what Diego could not shoot.
Pedro Solana, mountaineer, writer and sidekick, said that "it was not hard" to end a foreword he wrote "with his heart in his hand." In his speech recalled his beginnings in the mountain slopes and some adventures, not fabrications, the Camino de Santiago, by trekking in the Himalayas or cycling through the Pyrenees.
Source: Journal of Altoaragón .
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Send an email to:
expoolimpiadas@hotmail.es Indicating
Name, mailing address, location and postcode, plus who want to apply for the dedication of the author and that's it.
The book will be in your home within 72 hours, paid on delivery once we have received.
For 25 € + 3 € for shipping costs 28 euros =
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